Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it?

断乎不可！我们在罪上死了的人岂可仍在罪中活着呢？

绝对不可！我们向罪死了的人，岂可仍在罪中活着呢？

绝对不可！我们向罪死了的人，岂可仍在罪中活着呢？

绝不可以！我们既然向罪死了，岂可继续活在罪中？

绝对不可！我们向罪死了的人，怎么可以仍然活在罪中呢？

绝对不可！我们这些向罪已经死了的人，怎么还能活在罪中呢？

斷乎不可！我們在罪上死了的人豈可仍在罪中活着呢？

絕對不可！我們向罪死了的人，豈可仍在罪中活着呢？

絕對不可！我們向罪死了的人，豈可仍在罪中活着呢？

絕不可以！我們既然向罪死了，豈可繼續活在罪中？

絕對不可！我們向罪死了的人，怎麼可以仍然活在罪中呢？

斷乎不可。我們這向罪死了的人、怎能還在罪中活呢？

絕對不可！我們這些向罪已經死了的人，怎麼還能活在罪中呢？

曰、非也、我儕於罪既死、詎尚於罪中生乎、

曰、非也我儕絕惡若死、詎復為惡若生、

非也、我儕既絕罪若死、豈可仍於罪中而生乎、

夫吾人於罪既已心死、其尚能依罪而生乎？

By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?

Not at all! As far as sin is concerned, we are dead. So how can we keep on sinning?

By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Far from it! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

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

For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.

He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you are healed.

So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God.

For when I tried to keep the law, it condemned me. So I died to the law— I stopped trying to meet all its requirements— so that I might live for God.

But now we have been released from the law, for we died to it and are no longer captive to its power. Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in the Spirit.

So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then.

So then, since Christ suffered physical pain, you must arm yourselves with the same attitude he had, and be ready to suffer, too. For if you have suffered physically for Christ, you have finished with sin.You won’t spend the rest of your lives chasing your own desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God.You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy— their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.

As for me, may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross, my interest in this world has been crucified, and the world’s interest in me has also died.

You have died with Christ, and he has set you free from the spiritual powers of this world. So why do you keep on following the rules of the world, such as,

Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was.We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin.And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him.We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him.When he died, he died once to break the power of sin. But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God.So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus.

Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life.He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now!This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

Then what’s the advantage of being a Jew? Is there any value in the ceremony of circumcision?Yes, there are great benefits! First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the whole revelation of God.True, some of them were unfaithful; but just because they were unfaithful, does that mean God will be unfaithful?Of course not! Even if everyone else is a liar, God is true. As the Scriptures say about him,“ You will be proved right in what you say, and you will win your case in court.”

Your commandments give me understanding; no wonder I hate every false way of life. Nun

So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God.

No one here has more authority than I do. He has held back nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How could I do such a wicked thing? It would be a great sin against God.”