Romans 6
1 What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?
What do we say, then? Shall we continue in sin, that favor may abound?
2 Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
By no means. How shall we, who have died to sin, continue to live in it?
3 Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
Do you not know, that as many as have been immersed into Jesus Christ, have been immersed 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 buried, then, together with him, by the immersion into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father; so we also shall walk in newness of 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 planted together in the likeness of his death; we shall then, also, certainly be in the likeness of his resurrection.
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.
Knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should not any longer serve sin:
7 For anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
for he that has died is released from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.
Moreover, if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live 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.
Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies not again; death has no longer dominion over him:
10 The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.
for that he has died, he has died for sin once: but that he lives, he lives for God.
11 So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
So reckon yourselves also dead, indeed, to sin; but alive to God, by Jesus Christ.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.
Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body, by obeying it.
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.
Neither present your members as instruments of unrighteousness, to sin; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead; and your members as instruments of righteousness, to God.
14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
Besides, sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under law, but under favor.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!
What then do we say? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under favor?
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?
Do you not know, that to whom you present yourselves servants, by obedience; his servants you are whom you thus obey; whether of sin into death, or of obedience into 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, thanks to God, that though you were the servants of sin; yet you have heartily obeyed that model of doctrine to which you have been given up.
18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
And being made free from sin, you have become 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 speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh.) Wherefore, as you have presented your members servants to uncleanness, and to iniquity, to work iniquity; so present now your members, servants to righteousness, to work holiness.
20 For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.
For 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.
And what fruit had you, then, from these things of which you are now ashamed? for the reward of these 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 set free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit to holiness: and the end, everlasting life. (aiōnios g166)
