Romans 6
1 What then shall we say? Should we continue in sin that grace may abound?
What are we to say, then? Are we to continue to sin, in order that God’s loving kindness may be multiplied?
2 Far be the thought. We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?
Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, so how can we go on living in it?
3 Are you ignorant that we, as many as have been baptised unto Christ Jesus, have been baptised unto his death?
Or can it be that you do not know that all of us, who were baptised into union with Christ Jesus, in our baptism shared 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.
Consequently, through sharing his death in our baptism, we were buried with him; so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by a manifestation of the Father’s power, so we also may live a new life.
5 For if we are become identified with [him] in the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of [his] resurrection;
If we have become united with him by the act symbolic of his death, surely we will also become united with him by the act symbolic 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.
We recognise the truth that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the body, the stronghold of sin, might be rendered powerless, so that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
7 For he that has died is justified from sin.
For the man who has so died has been pronounced righteous and released from sin.
8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,
And our belief is, that, as we have shared Christ’s death, we will also share his life.
9 knowing that Christ having been raised up from among [the] dead dies no more: death has dominion over him no more.
We know, indeed, that Christ, having once risen from the dead, will not die again. Death has power over him no longer.
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 was a death to sin, once and for all. But the life that he now lives, he lives for God.
11 So also ye, reckon yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
So let it be with you – regard yourselves as dead to sin, but as living for God, through union with Christ Jesus.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies and compel you to obey its cravings.
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.
Do not offer any part of your bodies to sin, in the cause of unrighteousness, but once for all offer yourselves to God (as those who, though once dead, now have life), and devote every part of your bodies to the cause of righteousness.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under law but under grace.
For sin will not lord it over you. You are living under the reign, not of Law, but of love.
15 What then? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought.
What follows, then? Are we to sin because we are living under the reign of love and not of Law? Heaven forbid!
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?
Surely you know that when you offer yourselves as servants, to obey anyone, you are the servants of the person whom you obey, whether the service be a service to sin which leads to death, or a service to duty which leads to 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.
God be thanked that, though you were once servants of sin, yet you learned to give hearty obedience to that form of doctrine under which you were placed.
18 Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.
Set free from the control of sin, you became servants to 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 can but speak as people do because of the weakness of your earthly nature. Once you offered every part of your bodies to the service of impurity, and of wickedness, which leads to further wickedness. Now, in the same way, offer them to the service of righteousness, which leads to holiness.
20 For when ye were bondmen of sin ye were free from righteousness.
While you were still servants of sin, you were free as regards righteousness.
21 What fruit therefore had ye then in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of them [is] death.
But what were the fruits that you reaped from those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of such 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 that you have been set free from the control of sin, and have become servants to God, the fruit that you reap is an ever increasing holiness, and the end eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
