< Romans 6 >

1 What, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
What shall we say, then? shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 It can not be. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?
God forbid. For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?
3 Know you not that as many of us as were immersed into Christ Jesus, were immersed into his death?
Know you not that all we, who are baptized in Christ Jesus, are baptized in his death?
4 Therefore, we are buried with him, by immersion, into death, that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in a new life.
For we are buried together with him by baptism into death; that as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have become united to him by the likeness of his death, we shall certainly be united to him by the likeness of his resurrection;
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.
6 knowing this, that our former man has been crucified with him, in order that the sinful body may be deprived of its power, so that we should no longer serve sin:
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer.
7 for he that is dead is freed from sin.
For he that is dead is justified from sin.
8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ:
9 because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death has dominion over him no longer;
Knowing that Christ rising again from the dead, dieth now no more, death shall no more have dominion over him.
10 for, as it regards his dying, he, once for all, died to sin; but as it regards his living, he lives to God.
For in that he died to sin, he died once; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God:
11 So also do you count yourselves as dead indeed to sin, but as living to God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
So do you also reckon, that you are dead to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey it;
Let no sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.
13 and present not your members to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead; and your members to God, as instruments of righteousness.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin; but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of justice unto God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under law, but under grace.
For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? It can not be.
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Know you not, that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether of sin that leads to death, or of obedience that leads to righteousness?
Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto justice.
17 But thanks be to God, that though you were the servants of sin, yet you have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching, in which you have been instructed;
But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin, but have obeyed from the heart, unto that form of doctrine, into which you have been delivered.
18 and being made free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness.
Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.
19 I speak of what is common among men, oil account of the weakness of your flesh: for as you have presented your members as servants to uncleanness, and to lawlessness, in order to lawlessness, so now present your members as servants to righteousness, in order to holiness.
I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity; so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification.
20 For when you were the servants of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness.
For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice.
21 What fruit, therefore, had you at that time, in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.
22 But now, since you have been made free from sin, and have become servants to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting. (aiōnios g166)
23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (aiōnios g166)
For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting, in Christ Jesus our Lord. (aiōnios g166)

< Romans 6 >