Romans 6:5-18

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

¹²Therefore don`t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. ¹³Neither 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. ¹⁴For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

¹⁵What then? Will we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not! ¹⁶Don`t you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? ¹⁷But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were servants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered. ¹⁸Being made free from sin, you became servants of righteousness.