8. If, then, we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.
9. We know that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over him.
10. As to his death, he died to sin once and for all; as to his life, he lives for God.
11. Consequently, you too must think of yourselves as [being] dead to sin and living for God in Christ Jesus.
12. Therefore, sin must not reign over your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires.
13. And do not present the parts of your bodies to sin as weapons for wickedness, but present yourselves to God as raised from the dead to life and the parts of your bodies to God as weapons for righteousness.
14. For sin is not to have any power over you, since you are not under the law but under grace.
15. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Of course not!
16. Do you not know that if you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
17. But thanks be to God that, although you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from the heart to the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted.