Romans

1What shall we say, then? shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

2God forbid. For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?

3Know you not that all we, who are baptized in Christ Jesus, are baptized in his death?

4For we are buried together with him by baptism into death; that as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life.

5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.

6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer.

7For he that is dead is justified from sin.

8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ:

9Knowing that Christ rising again from the dead, dieth now no more, death shall no more have dominion over him.

10For in that he died to sin, he died once; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God:

11So do you also reckon, that you are dead to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

12Let no sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.

13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin; but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of justice unto God.

14For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under the law, but under grace.

15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

16Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto justice.

17But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin, but have obeyed from the heart, unto that form of doctrine, into which you have been delivered.

18Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.

19I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity; so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification.

20For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice.

21What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.

22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting.

23For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

在罪上死，在基督裏活

1這樣，怎麼說呢？我們可以仍在罪中、叫恩典顯多嗎？

2斷乎不可！我們在罪上死了的人豈可仍在罪中活着呢？

3豈不知我們這受洗歸入基督耶穌的人是受洗歸入他的死嗎？

4所以，我們藉着洗禮歸入死，和他一同埋葬，原是叫我們一舉一動有新生的樣式，像基督藉着父的榮耀從死裏復活一樣。

5我們若在他死的形狀上與他聯合，也要在他復活的形狀上與他聯合；

6因為知道我們的舊人和他同釘十字架，使罪身滅絕，叫我們不再作罪的奴僕；

7因為已死的人是脫離了罪。

8我們若是與基督同死，就信必與他同活。

9因為知道基督既從死裏復活，就不再死，死也不再作他的主了。

10他死是向罪死了，只有一次；他活是向上帝活着。

11這樣，你們向罪也當看自己是死的；向上帝在基督耶穌裏，卻當看自己是活的。

12所以，不要容罪在你們必死的身上作王，使你們順從身子的私慾。

13也不要將你們的肢體獻給罪作不義的器具；倒要像從死裏復活的人，將自己獻給上帝，並將肢體作義的器具獻給上帝。

14罪必不能作你們的主；因你們不在律法之下，乃在恩典之下。

義的奴僕

15這卻怎麼樣呢？我們在恩典之下，不在律法之下，就可以犯罪嗎？斷乎不可！

16豈不曉得你們獻上自己作奴僕，順從誰，就作誰的奴僕嗎？或作罪的奴僕，以至於死；或作順命的奴僕，以致成義。

17感謝上帝！因為你們從前雖然作罪的奴僕，現今卻從心裏順服了所傳給你們道理的模範。

18你們既從罪裏得了釋放，就作了義的奴僕。

19我因你們肉體的軟弱，就照人的常話對你們說。你們從前怎樣將肢體獻給不潔不法作奴僕，以至於不法；現今也要照樣將肢體獻給義作奴僕，以至於成聖。

20因為你們作罪之奴僕的時候，就不被義約束了。

21你們現今所看為羞恥的事，當日有甚麼果子呢？那些事的結局就是死。

22但現今，你們既從罪裏得了釋放，作了上帝的奴僕，就有成聖的果子，那結局就是永生。

23因為罪的工價乃是死；惟有上帝的恩賜，在我們的主基督耶穌裏，乃是永生。