1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection; 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, 9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him! 10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God. 11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

12 Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.

15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! 16 Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered. 18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. 20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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.