| 1 Što ćemo dakle reći? Da ostanemo u grijehu da milost izobiluje? | 1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? |
| 2 Nipošto! Jednom umrli grijehu, kako da još živimo u njemu? | 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? |
| 3 Ili zar ne znate: koji smo god kršteni u Krista Isusa, u smrt smo njegovu kršteni. | 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? |
| 4 Krštenjem smo dakle zajedno s njime ukopani u smrt da kao što Krist slavom Očevom bî uskrišen od mrtvih, i mi tako hodimo u novosti života. | 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. |
| 5 Ako smo doista s njime srasli po sličnosti smrti njegovoj, očito ćemo srasti i po sličnosti njegovu uskrsnuću. | 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. |
| 6 Ovo znamo: naš je stari čovjek zajedno s njim raspet da onemoća ovo grešno tijelo te više ne robujemo grijehu. | 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. |
| 7 Ta tko umre, opravdan je od grijeha. | 7 For he who has died is freed from sin. |
| 8 Pa ako umrijesmo s Kristom, vjerujemo da ćemo i živjeti zajedno s njime. | 8 But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. |
| 9 Znamo doista: Krist uskrišen od mrtvih, više ne umire, smrt njime više ne gospoduje. | 9 For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. |
| 10 Što umrije, umrije grijehu jednom zauvijek; a što živi, živi Bogu. | 10 The death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. |
| 11 Tako i vi: smatrajte sebe mrtvima grijehu, a živima Bogu u Kristu Isusu! | 11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. |
| 12 Neka dakle ne kraljuje grijeh u vašem smrtnom tijelu da slušate njegove požude; | 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. |
| 13 i ne predajite grijehu udova svojih za oružje nepravde, nego sebe, od mrtvih oživjele, predajte Bogu i udove svoje dajte Bogu za oružje pravednosti. | 13 Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness. |
| 14 Valjda grijeh neće vama gospodovati! Ta niste pod Zakonom, nego pod milošću! | 14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. |
| 15 Što dakle? Da griješimo jer nismo pod Zakonom nego pod milošću? Nipošto! | 15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! |
| 16 Ne znate li: ako se komu predate za robove, na poslušnost, robovi ste onoga koga slušate: bilo grijeha – na smrt, bilo poslušnosti – na pravednost. | 16 Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to any one as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? |
| 17 Bijaste robovi grijeha, ali ste, hvala Bogu, od srca poslušali ono pravilo nauka kojemu ste povjereni; | 17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, |
| 18 da, oslobođeni grijeha, postadoste sluge pravednosti. | 18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. |
| 19 Po ljudsku govorim zbog vaše ljudske slabosti: kao što nekoć predadoste udove svoje za robove nečistoći i bezakonju – do bezakonja, tako sada predajte udove svoje za robove pravednosti – do posvećenja. | 19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification. |
| 20 Uistinu, kad bijaste robovi grijeha, »slobodni« bijaste od pravednosti. | 20 When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. |
| 21 Pa kakav ste plod onda imali? Onoga se sada stidite jer svršetak je tomu – smrt. | 21 But then what return did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death. |
| 22 Sada pak pošto ste oslobođeni grijeha i postali sluge Božje, imate plod svoj za posvećenje, a svršetak – život vječni. | 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life. |
| 23 Jer plaća je grijeha smrt, a dar Božji jest život vječni u Kristu Isusu, Gospodinu našem. | 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
