Romans

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

2let it not be! we who died to the sin — how shall we still live in it?

3are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized?

4we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

5For, if we have become planted together to the likeness of his death, [so] also we shall be of the rising again;

6this knowing, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

7for he who hath died hath been set free from the sin.

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

9knowing that Christ, having been raised up out of the dead, doth no more die, death over him hath no more lordship;

10for in that he died, to the sin he died once, and in that he liveth, he liveth to God;

11so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.

12Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

13neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;

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

15What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!

16have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

17and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and — were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;

18and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.

19In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness — to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness — to sanctification,

20for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness,

21what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those [is] death.

22And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit — to sanctification, and the end life age-during;

23for the wages of the sin [is] death, and the gift of God [is] life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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。