Romans 6
1 So what shall we say? Shall we continue in the sin so that the grace may abound?
What shall we say, then? shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 Of course not! How can we who died to sin keep on living in it?
God forbid. For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?
3 Or are you unaware that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
Know you not that all we, who are baptized in Christ Jesus, are baptized in his death?
4 Therefore, we were buried with Him by means of that baptism into that death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by means of the Father's glory, we also should walk in newness of life.
For we are buried together with him by baptism into death; that as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life.
5 Now if we have become united with Him in His death, we will certainly be in His resurrection as well;
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.
6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him in order that the body of the sin might be set aside, so that we no longer be enslaved to that sin—
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer.
7 because he who has died has been released from that sin.
For he that is dead is justified from sin.
8 Now since we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him,
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ:
9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, cannot die again; death can no longer master Him
Knowing that Christ rising again from the dead, dieth now no more, death shall no more have dominion over him.
10 —the death He died He died to sin once for all, while the life He lives He lives to God.
For in that he died to sin, he died once; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God:
11 Thus you also, consider yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
So do you also reckon, that you are dead to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Therefore do not let the sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey it with the body's evil desires
Let no sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.
13 —do not present any part of your body to sin as an implement for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your body parts to God as implements for righteousness.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin; but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of justice unto God.
14 Really, sin must not 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? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Of course not!
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Do you not know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey them as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether of sin into death, or of obedience into righteousness?
Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto justice.
17 But thanks be to God that although you used to be the slaves of the sin you wholeheartedly obeyed that pattern of doctrine into which you were delivered.
But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin, but have obeyed from the heart, unto that form of doctrine, into which you have been delivered.
18 So having been emancipated from the sin, you became enslaved to the righteousness.
Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.
19 I continue to speak on a human level because of the weakness of your flesh. Now just as you used to present your body parts as slaves to uncleanness, and to ever increasing lawlessness, so now present your body parts as slaves to righteousness with a view to sanctification.
I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity; so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification.
20 For when you were slaves to the sin, you were ‘free’ from the righteousness.
For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice.
21 So what ‘fruit’ did you have at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? The end of those things is death!
What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.
22 But now, having been emancipated from the sin, and having become enslaved to God, you have your ‘fruit’ into sanctification—and the end is eternal life! (aiōnios g166)
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting. (aiōnios g166)
