Romans 6
1 What will we say then? We continue in sin so that grace may abound?
What then shall we say? Shall we continue to abound in sin, in order that grace may come to abound?
2 May it not happen! How will we who died to sin, still live in it?
No indeed; how shall we who have died to sin still go on living in it any longer?
3 Or are ye ignorant that as many as were immersed into Christ Jesus were immersed into his death?
For do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Jesus Christ, have been 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 have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a 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, so we shall also be united with him 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.
For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin -
7 For he who has died has been made righteous away from sin.
for he who is dead is set free from sin.
8 And if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,
Now if we have 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, dies no more; death has no more 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 for all; but the life that he lives he is living 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 count yourselves also 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.
Therefore let not sin rule as king in your mortal body, compelling you to obey its lusts.
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,
Do not continue to present any part of your body to sin to be used as a weapon of unrighteousness. On the contrary, be presenting yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and the various parts of your bodies to be used as weapons of righteousness.
14 for sin will not have dominion over you. For ye are not under law, but under grace.
For sin shall not lord it over you; for you are not under the rule of law, but under the rule of grace.
15 What then? May we sin, because we are not under law but under grace? May it not happen!
What then? Shall we commit an act of sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not.
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?
Do you not know that when you surrender yourselves as slaves to any one to obey him, you are his slaves whom you obey; whether it be sin, whose end is death, or obedience, whose end is 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 God be thanked that you who were once the slaves of sin have obeyed from your hearts that type of teaching to which you were appointed;
18 And having been set free from sin, ye were made servile to righteousness
and being set free from sin, you became the slaves 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 in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature - just as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.
20 For when ye were bondmen of sin, ye were uninhibited by righteousness.
For when you were the slaves of sin, you were under no subjection to 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 harvest-fruit then had you at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22 But now having been made free from sin, and having become servile to God, ye have your fruit for sanctification, and the end, eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
But now that you have been set free from sin and become slaves of God, the harvest-fruit which you are reaping tends to produce holiness, and it ends is life eternal. (aiōnios g166)
