Romans 6
1 What will we say then? We continue in sin so that grace may abound?
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 May it not happen! How will we who died to sin, still live in it?
God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?
3 Or are ye ignorant that as many as were immersed into Christ Jesus were immersed into his death?
Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 We were buried therefore with him through the immersion into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may walk in newness of life.
We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have become co-planted in the likeness of his death, then we will also be of the resurrection.
For if we have become united with [him] in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of his resurrection;
6 Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, so that the body of sin might be inactivated, no longer to enslave us to sin.
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;
7 For he who has died has been made righteous away from sin.
for he that hath died is justified from sin.
8 And if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,
But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him.
knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more hath dominion over him.
10 For that he died, he died to sin once, but that he lives, he lives to God.
For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11 So also ye, reckon yourselves to be indeed dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body in order to obey it, in its lusts.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:
13 And do not present your body-parts as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God, as living out of the dead, and your body-parts as instruments of righteousness to God,
neither present your members unto sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 for sin will not have dominion over you. For ye are not under law, but under grace.
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? May we sin, because we are not under law but under grace? May it not happen!
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to what ye present yourselves as bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to what ye obey, whether of sin for death, or of obedience for righteousness?
Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves [as] servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But thanks to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but ye obeyed from the heart a model of doctrine for which ye were delivered.
But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;
18 And having been set free from sin, ye were made servile to righteousness
and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.
19 (I speak man-like because of the weakness of your flesh). For as ye presented your body-parts servile to uncleanness, and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present your body-parts servile to righteousness for sanctification.
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members [as] servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members [as] servants to righteousness unto sanctification.
20 For when ye were bondmen of sin, ye were uninhibited by righteousness.
For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.
21 What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
