Romans 6
1 What, then, will we say? Will 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 Let it not be! We who died to sin—how will 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 were immersed into Christ Jesus, were immersed into His death?
Or can it be that you do not know that all of us, who were baptized into union with Christ Jesus, in our baptism shared his death?
4 We were buried together, then, with Him through the immersion into death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might 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 have become planted together to the likeness of His death, [so] we also will be of the 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 was crucified with [Him], that the body of sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving 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 who has died has been set free from sin.
For the man who has so died has been pronounced righteous and released from sin.
8 And if we died with Christ, we believe that we also will 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 out of the dead, dies no more; death has no more lordship over Him;
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 died, He died to sin once, and 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 you, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.
So let it be with you – regard yourselves as dead to sin, but as living for God, through union with Christ Jesus.
12 Do not let then sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies and compel you to obey its cravings.
13 neither present your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of 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 will not have lordship over you, for you 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? Will we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be!
What follows, then? Are we to sin because we are living under the reign of love and not of Law? Heaven forbid!
16 Have you not known that to whom you present yourselves servants for obedience, servants you are to him to whom you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to 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 And thanks to God, that you were servants of sin, and—were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were delivered up;
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 and having been freed from sin, you became servants to righteousness.
Set free from the control of sin, you became servants to righteousness.
19 I speak in a human [way], because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as you presented your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness—to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to righteousness—to sanctification,
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 you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
While you were still servants of sin, you were free as regards righteousness.
21 What fruit, therefore, were you having then, in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those [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 And now, having been freed from sin, and having become servants to God, you have your fruit—to sanctification, and the end continuous 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)
