Romans 6
1 What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?
Then what shall we say? must we abide in sin, in order that grace may abound?
2 In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?
It could not be so. How shall we, who are dead unto sin, live any longer in it?
3 Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death?
Whether do you not know, that so many of us as were baptized unto Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?
4 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.
Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death: in order that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so must we also walk in newness of life.
5 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;
For if we have grown together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 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.
knowing this, that our old man is crucified along with him, in order that the body of sin may be destroyed, that we may no longer serve sin;
7 Because he who is dead is free from sin.
for the one having died has been made free from sin.
8 But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;
But if we died along with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him:
9 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.
knowing that Christ having risen from the dead dies no more; death no longer has dominion over him.
10 For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.
For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he lives, he lives unto God.
11 Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.
So you also thus reckon yourselves dead unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ.
12 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;
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you should obey the lusts of it:
13 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.
neither present your members arms of iniquity unto sin; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members arms of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin may not have rule over you: because 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? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.
What then? can we commit sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? it could not be so.
16 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.
Do you not know, that to whom you present yourselves servants unto obedience, ye are servants to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness?
17 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;
But thanks be unto God, that whereas ye were servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the type of teaching into which ye were delivered:
18 And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.
but having been made free from sin, ye became servants unto righteousness.
19 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.
I speak after the manner of a man on account of the weakness of your carnality. For as ye presented your members as servants unto impurity and lawlessness pursuant to lawlessness, so now present your members servants unto righteousness pursuant to sanctification.
20 When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.
For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
21 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.
What fruit then had you at that time in those things in which you are now ashamed? for the end of these things is death.
22 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)
But now having been made free from sin, and having become servants unto God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
