1 Wat sal ons dan sê? Sal ons in die sonde bly, dat die genade meer kan word?
2 Nee, stellig nie! Ons wat die sonde afgesterf het, hoe kan ons nog daarin lewe?
3 Of weet julle nie dat ons almal wat in Christus Jesus gedoop is, in sy dood gedoop is nie?
4 Ons is dus saam met Hom begrawe deur die doop in die dood, sodat net soos Christus uit die dode opgewek is deur die heerlikheid van die Vader, ons ook so in 'n nuwe lewe kan wandel.
5 Want as ons met Hom saamgegroei het deur die gelykvormigheid aan sy dood, sal ons dit tog ook wees deur die aan sy opstanding;
6 aangesien ons dit weet dat ons oue mens saam gekruisig is, sodat die liggaam van die sonde tot niet gemaak sou word en ons nie meer die sonde sou dien nie.
7 Want hy wat gesterf het, is geregverdig van die sonde.
8 As ons dan saam met Christus gesterf het, glo ons dat ons ook saam met Hom sal lewe,
9 omdat ons weet dat Christus, nadat Hy opgewek is uit die dode, nie meer sterf nie. Die dood heers oor Hom nie meer nie.
10 Want die dood wat Hy gesterf het, het Hy vir die sonde eens en vir altyd gesterwe; maar die lewe wat Hy leef, leef Hy vir God.
11 So moet julle ook reken dat julle wel vir die sonde dood is, maar lewend is vir God in Christus Jesus, onse Here.
12 Laat die sonde dan in julle sterflike liggaam nie heers dat julle aan sy begeerlikhede gehoorsaam sou wees nie.
13 En moenie julle lede stel tot beskikking van die sonde as werktuie van ongeregtigheid nie, maar stel julleself tot beskikking van God as mense wat uit die dode lewend geword het, en julle lede as werktuie van geregtigheid in die diens van God.
14 Want die sonde sal oor julle nie heers nie; want julle is nie onder die wet nie, maar onder die genade.
15 Wat dan? Sal ons sonde doen, omdat ons nie onder die wet is nie maar onder die genade? Nee, stellig nie!
16 Weet julle nie dat aan wie julle julself as diensknegte tot beskikking stel om hom gehoorsaam te wees, julle diensknegte is van hom aan wie julle gehoorsaam is nie •f van die sonde tot die dood, •f van die gehoorsaamheid tot geregtigheid?
17 Maar ons dank God dat julle wel diensknegte van die sonde was, maar van harte gehoorsaam geword het aan die voorbeeld van die leer wat aan julle oorgelewer is,
18 en, vrygemaak van die sonde, het julle diensbaar geword aan die geregtigheid.
19 Ek spreek menslikerwys ter wille van die swakheid van julle vlees; want net soos julle jul lede diensbaar gestel het aan die onreinheid en wetteloosheid om wetteloos te wees, so moet julle nou jul lede diensbaar stel aan die geregtigheid tot heiligmaking.
20 Want toe julle diensknegte was van die sonde, was julle vry van die geregtigheid.
21 Watter vrug dan het julle toe gehad van die dinge waaroor julle jul nou skaam? Want die uiteinde daarvan is die dood.
22 Maar nou dat julle vrygemaak is van die sonde en diensbaar geword het aan God, het julle jul vrug tot heiligmaking en uiteindelik die ewige lewe.
23 Want die loon van die sonde is die dood, maar die genadegawe van God is die ewige lewe in Christus Jesus, onse Here.
1 What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?
2 In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?
3 Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death?
4 We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.
5 For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again;
6 Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.
7 Because he who is dead is free from sin.
8 But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;
9 Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him.
10 For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.
11 Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.
12 For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;
13 And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
14 For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.
16 Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.
17 But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;
18 And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.
19 I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.
20 When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.
21 What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.
22 But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.
23 For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.