Romans

在罪上死，在基督里活

1这样，怎么说呢？我们可以仍在罪中、叫恩典显多吗？

2断乎不可！我们在罪上死了的人岂可仍在罪中活着呢？

3岂不知我们这受洗归入基督耶稣的人是受洗归入他的死吗？

4所以，我们借着洗礼归入死，和他一同埋葬，原是叫我们一举一动有新生的样式，像基督借着父的荣耀从死里复活一样。

5我们若在他死的形状上与他联合，也要在他复活的形状上与他联合；

6因为知道我们的旧人和他同钉十字架，使罪身灭绝，叫我们不再作罪的奴仆；

7因为已死的人是脱离了罪。

8我们若是与基督同死，就信必与他同活。

9因为知道基督既从死里复活，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 神活着。

11这样，你们向罪也当看自己是死的；向 神在基督耶稣里，却当看自己是活的。

12所以，不要容罪在你们必死的身上作王，使你们顺从身子的私欲。

13也不要将你们的肢体献给罪作不义的器具；倒要像从死里复活的人，将自己献给 神，并将肢体作义的器具献给 神。

14罪必不能作你们的主；因你们不在律法之下，乃在恩典之下。

义的奴仆

15这却怎么样呢？我们在恩典之下，不在律法之下，就可以犯罪吗？断乎不可！

16岂不晓得你们献上自己作奴仆，顺从谁，就作谁的奴仆吗？或作罪的奴仆，以至于死；或作顺命的奴仆，以至成义。

17感谢 神！因为你们从前虽然作罪的奴仆，现今却从心里顺服了所传给你们道理的模范。

18你们既从罪里得了释放，就作了义的奴仆。

19我因你们肉体的软弱，就照人的常话对你们说。你们从前怎样将肢体献给不洁不法作奴仆，以至于不法；现今也要照样将肢体献给义作奴仆，以至于成圣。

20因为你们作罪之奴仆的时候，就不被义约束了。

21你们现今所看为羞耻的事，当日有什么果子呢？那些事的结局就是死。

22但现今，你们既从罪里得了释放，作了 神的奴仆，就有成圣的果子，那结局就是永生。

23因为罪的工价乃是死；惟有 神的恩赐，在我们的主基督耶稣里，乃是永生。

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

2God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?

3Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

4We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

5For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;

6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;

7for he that hath died is justified from sin.

8But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

9knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more hath dominion over him.

10For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

11Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.

12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

13neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

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

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

16Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

17But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;

18and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.

19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness unto sanctification.

20For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.

21What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

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

23For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.