Dead to Sin, Alive to God
(2 Corinthians 4:7–18)

1What then will we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may abound? 2Never may it be! We who died to sin, how shall we still live in it? 3Or are you⁺ ignorant that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4We were buried, therefore, with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised out from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.

5For if we have become united in the likeness of His death, yet also we will be of the resurrection, 6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, so that the body of sin might be nullified, for us no longer to be slaves to sin. 7For the one having died has been justified from sin.

8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him, 9knowing that Christ, having been raised out from the dead, dies no more; death no longer rules over Him. 10For that which He died, He died to sin once for all; but that which He lives, He lives to God. 11So also you⁺, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.†

12Therefore do not let sin reign in your⁺ mortal body, in order to obey its desires.† 13Neither present your⁺ members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as living out from the dead, and your⁺ members to God as instruments of righteousness. 14For sin will not rule over you⁺, for you⁺ are not under law, but under grace.

The Wages of Sin

15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Never may it be! 16Do you⁺ not know that to whom you⁺ present yourselves as slaves for obedience, you⁺ are slaves to the one whom you⁺ obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17But thanks be to God that you⁺ used to be slaves of sin, but you⁺ obeyed from the heart the form of teaching to which you⁺ were delivered up. 18Now having been set free from sin, you⁺ became slaves to righteousness.

19I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your⁺ flesh. For just as you⁺ presented your⁺ members as slaves to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now present your⁺ members as slaves to righteousness unto sanctification.

20For when you⁺ were slaves of sin, you⁺ were free from righteousness. 21What fruit, therefore, were you⁺ having then in the things of which you⁺ are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22But now, having been set free from sin and having become slaves to God, you⁺ have your⁺ fruit unto sanctification, and the end is eternal life. 23For the wages of sin is death,† but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Footnotes:

11 BYZ and TR include our Lord.
12 BYZ and TR to obey it in its desires
23 See Proverbs 10:16.