So should we sin and never cease,
That grace may even more increase?
No, not at all, for we are dead,
So how can we by sin be led?
For if we’re baptized, don’t you know,
A bond with Jesus’ death we show.
We’re buried, and we’re risen too.
The Father gives us life that’s new.
Since we with Jesus’ death connect,
Like Him, we also resurrect.
For our old man, in Him destroyed,
In sin no more can be employed.
For those who’ve died have been set free
From every immorality.
If we are dead with Christ who lives,
We also live the life He gives.
The Christ who rose won’t die again,
For once He died, He died to sin.
So death has lost its holding power,
Christ lives to God forevermore.
We likewise view ourselves as dead,
Alive to God through Christ our head,
But dead to every evil thing
In honor to our risen King.
Don’t let wrongdoing have its way.
It cannot force you to obey.
Though its desires come on strong,
Don’t let your body do what’s wrong,
But give yourself to God instead,
As one who’s risen from the dead.
Your body parts are holy tools,
And haughty sin no longer rules.
It’s lost its narcissistic place,
For we’re not under law but grace.
Not under law, so should we sin,
Since now to grace we’ve entered in?
No, that’s not how it works at all,
For don’t you know, on whom you call
And what you give yourselves to do
Become what you’re subservient to?
For either sin will lead to death
Or heeding God to righteousness.
Thank God that you, though once enslaved
To what your sinful passions craved,
Have now obeyed with willing hearts
The teaching that God’s Word imparts.
Now free from sin, you do what’s right
And in the truth of God delight.
Of this in human terms I speak,
Because the natural man is weak.
When you have given sin your time,
It’s led to more and greater crime,
So now to righteousness you sow,
From which more righteousness will grow.
When trapped in sin’s captivity,
To righteousness you then were free.
What fruit has all your sinning claimed?
It ends in death and makes ashamed.
But now we’re free from sin’s distress
And have our fruit in holiness.
We’re servants of our God and Lord,
And endless life is our reward.
For death is what our sins attained,
But God through Jesus Christ ordained,
With grace that over sin transcends,
To give us life that never ends.
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