7 [5:12]Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so came upon all men because all sinned,-- [5:13]for till the law there was sin in the world, but sin is not accounted where there is no law [5:14]but death reigned from Adam till Moses even over those that sinned not after the similitude Adam's transgression, who is a type of him that was to come; [5:15]but not as the fall so also is the gift; for if by the fall of one the many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by grace which is of the one man Jesus Christ, abounded to the many; [5:16]and not as through one that sinned is the gift; for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the gift was from many sins to a righteous ordinance; [5:17]for if by one fall death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ;-- [5:18]therefore, as through the fall of one [judgment came] on all men to condemnation, so also through the righteous ordinance of one [the gift comes] on all men to justification of life; [5:19]for as through the disobedience of the one man the many were constituted sinners, so also through the obedience of the one shall the many be constituted righteous. [5:20]For the law supervened that the fall might abound; but where the sin abounded the grace was superabundant, [5:21]that as sin reigned in death, so the grace shall reign through righteousness in life eternal through Jesus Christ our Lord. CHAPTER IV. SIN IS ON NO ACCOUNT TO BE ALLOWED. 1 [6:1]WHAT shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that the grace may abound? [6:2]By no means. How shall we who died to sin any longer live in it? [6:3]Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized in Christ were baptized in his death? [6:4]We have been buried therefore with him through baptism in death, that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life. [6:5]For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall much more be of his resurrection; [6:6]knowing this that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer serve sin; [6:7] for he that died was justified from sin. [6:8]And if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him; [6:9]knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no longer a lordship over him. [6:10]For [the death] which he died, he died to sin once; but [the life] which he lives, he lives to God. [6:11]So also account yourselves dead indeed to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.