¹What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

¹Kaj torej porečemo? Bomo li ostali v grehu, da se milost pomnoži?

²May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

²Nikakor ne! Mi, ki smo umrli grehu, kako bomo še živeli v njem?

³Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

³Ali pa ne veste, da smo se, katerikoli smo bili krščeni v Kristusa Jezusa, krstili v smrt njegovo?

⁴We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

⁴Pokopani smo torej bili ž njim vred po krstu v smrt, da naj tako, kakor je vstal Kristus iz mrtvih po Očetovi slavi, hodimo tudi mi v novem življenju.

⁵For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;

⁵Kajti če smo ž njim združeni po podobnosti njegove smrti, bomo tudi po podobnosti njegovega vstajenja,

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.

⁶vedoč to, da je bil stari naš človek ž njim na križ razpet, da se zatare telo greha, da bi več ne sužnjevali grehu.

⁷For he who has died has been freed from sin.

⁷Zakaj kdor je umrl, je oproščen [Ali: opravičen.] greha.

⁸But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

⁸Če smo pa umrli s Kristusom, verujemo, da bomo tudi živeli ž njim,

⁹knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!

⁹ker vemo, da Kristus, obujen iz mrtvih, ne umrje več, smrt nad njim ne gospoduje več.

¹⁰For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

¹⁰Kajti s smrtjo, ki jo je storil, je umrl grehu enkrat za vselej; življenje pa, ki ga živi, živi Bogu.

¹¹Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹¹Tako tudi vi sodite o sebi, da ste mrtvi grehu, a živi Bogu v Kristusu Jezusu.

¹²Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

¹²Naj torej ne kraljuje greh v vašem smrtnem telesu, da poslušate poželenja njegova.

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.

¹³Tudi ne dajajte svojih udov grehu za orožje krivice, temuč dajte sebe Bogu, kakor kateri ste bili mrtvi in zdaj ste živi, in ude svoje dajte Bogu za orožje pravičnosti.

¹⁴For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

¹⁴Kajti greh ne bo nad vami gospodoval, ker niste pod postavo, ampak pod milostjo.

¹⁵What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

¹⁵Kaj torej? bomo li grešili, ker nismo pod postavo, ampak pod milostjo? Nikakor ne!

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?

¹⁶Ne veste li, če dajete sebe za hlapce v pokorščino, da ste hlapci tistemu, kogar poslušate: ali grehu za smrt, ali pa poslušnosti za pravičnost?

¹⁷But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.

¹⁷A hvala Bogu, da ste bili sužnji grehu, pa ste iz srca postali pokorni obliki nauka, ki ste vanj bili postavljeni;

¹⁸Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

¹⁸osvobojeni pa greha, ste postali služabniki pravičnosti.

¹⁹I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

¹⁹Po človeško govorim zavoljo slabosti vašega mesa. Kakor ste namreč dali svoje ude v sužnost nečistosti in nepravičnosti, da bi delali nepravičnost, tako dajte sedaj svoje ude v službo pravičnosti v posvečenje.

²⁰For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

²⁰Kajti ko ste bili sužnji greha, ste bili svobodni glede pravičnosti.

²¹What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

²¹Kakšen sad ste torej imeli takrat od tega, česar se sedaj sramujete? Kajti konec tega je smrt.

²²But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

²²Sedaj pa, ko ste osvobojeni greha in ste postali Božji služabniki, imate sad svoj, ki vodi v posvečenje, a konec večno življenje.Kajti plačilo za greh je smrt, a milostni dar Božji je večno življenje v Kristusu Jezusu, Gospodu našem.

²³For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²³Kajti plačilo za greh je smrt, a milostni dar Božji je večno življenje v Kristusu Jezusu, Gospodu našem.