< Romans 6 >

1 So what's our response? Should we continue to sin so we can have even more grace?
What then shall we say? Should we continue in sin that grace may abound?
2 Of course not! Since we're already dead to sin, how can we continue to live in sin?
Far be the thought. We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?
3 Don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Are you ignorant that we, as many as have been baptised unto Christ Jesus, have been baptised unto his death?
4 Through baptism we were buried with him in death so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father we too can live a new life.
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.
5 If we've become one with him in dying like he did, then we'll be raised like him too.
For if we are become identified with [him] in the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of [his] resurrection;
6 We know that our old self was crucified with him to dispose of the dead body of sin so that we wouldn't be enslaved by sin any longer.
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.
7 Anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
For he that has died is justified from sin.
8 Since we died with Christ, we have confidence that we will also live with him,
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,
9 for we know that because Christ has been raised from the dead he won't ever die, because death has no longer any power over him.
knowing that Christ having been raised up from among [the] dead dies no more: death has dominion over him no more.
10 In dying, he died to sin once and for all, but now he lives, and he lives for God!
For in that he has died, he has died to sin once for all; but in that he lives, he lives to God.
11 In just the same way you should consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God through Christ Jesus.
So also ye, reckon yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Don't let sin have control over your mortal body, don't give in to its temptations,
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.
13 and don't use any parts of your body as evil tools of sin. Instead dedicate yourselves to God as those who have been brought back from death to life, and use all parts of your body as tools to do something good for God.
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.
14 Sin won't rule over you, because you're not under law but under grace.
For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under law but under grace.
15 So then, should we sin because we're not under law, but under grace? Of course not!
What then? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought.
16 Don't you realize that if you make yourselves someone's slaves, obeying their orders, then you are slaves to the one you obey? If you are slaves of sin, the result is death; if you obey God, the result is you are made right with him.
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?
17 Thank God that though you once were slaves to sin, you whole-heartedly chose to follow the truth about God that you learned.
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.
18 Now that you've been freed from sin, you've become slaves of doing what is morally right.
Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.
19 I'm using this everyday example because your human thinking is limited. Just as you once enslaved yourselves to immorality, piling up sin upon sin, now you must enslave yourselves to what is pure and right.
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.
20 When you were slaves to sin you were not required to do what's right.
For when ye were bondmen of sin ye were free from righteousness.
21 But what were the results back then? Aren't you ashamed of the things you did? Such things that lead to death!
What fruit therefore had ye then in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of them [is] death.
22 But now that you're set free from sin, and have become God's slaves, the results will be a pure life—and in the end, eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
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)
23 The wage sin pays is death, but God's free gift is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. (aiōnios g166)
For the wages of sin [is] death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (aiōnios g166)

< Romans 6 >