Romans 6
1 What then shall we say? Should we continue in sin that grace may abound?
Then what shall we say? must we abide in sin, in order that grace may abound?
2 Far be the thought. We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?
It could not be so. How shall we, who are dead unto sin, live any longer in it?
3 Are you ignorant that we, as many as have been baptised unto Christ Jesus, have been baptised unto 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 buried therefore with him by baptism unto death, in order that, even as Christ has been raised up from among [the] dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of 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 are become identified with [him] in the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of [his] resurrection;
For if we have grown together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve 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 For he that has died is justified from sin.
for the one having died has been made free from sin.
8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,
But if we died along with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him:
9 knowing that Christ having been raised up from among [the] dead dies no more: death has dominion over him no more.
knowing that Christ having risen from the dead dies no more; death no longer has dominion over him.
10 For in that he has died, he has died to sin once for all; but in that he lives, he lives to God.
For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he lives, he lives unto God.
11 So also ye, reckon yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
So you also thus reckon yourselves dead unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you should obey the lusts of it:
13 Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among [the] dead, and your members 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 shall not have dominion over you, for ye 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? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought.
What then? can we commit sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? it could not be so.
16 Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto 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 thanks [be] to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye were instructed.
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 Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.
but having been made free from sin, ye became servants unto righteousness.
19 I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh. For even as ye have yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness.
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 For when ye were bondmen of sin ye were free from righteousness.
For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
21 What fruit therefore had ye then in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of them [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, having got your freedom from sin, and having become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end 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)
