< Romans 6 >

1 What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?
What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?
2 Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?
3 Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death?
4 We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.
We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.
5 For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection.
For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again;
6 We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.
7 For anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
Because he who is dead is free from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.
But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;
9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has dominion over Him.
Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him.
10 The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.
For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.
11 So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.
For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;
13 Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.
And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!
What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.
16 Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?
Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.
17 But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.
But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;
18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.
19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.
I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.
20 For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.
When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.
21 What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.
22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life. (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 reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord. (aiōnios g166)

< Romans 6 >