Romans 6
1 What should we say then? Should we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
What, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
2 Absolutely not. We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
It can not be. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?
3 Or do you not know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Know you not that as many of us as were immersed into Christ Jesus, were immersed into his death?
4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Therefore, we are buried with him, by immersion, into death, that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in a new life.
5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
For if we have become united to him by the likeness of his death, we shall certainly be united to him by the likeness of his resurrection;
6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
knowing this, that our former man has been crucified with him, in order that the sinful body may be deprived of its power, so that we should no longer serve sin:
7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
for he that is dead is freed from sin.
8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him.
because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death has dominion over him no longer;
10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
for, as it regards his dying, he, once for all, died to sin; but as it regards his living, he lives to God.
11 In the same way, consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
So also do you count yourselves as dead indeed to sin, but as living to God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey it;
13 Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
and present not your members to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead; and your members to God, as instruments of righteousness.
14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Absolutely not.
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? It can not be.
16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, whether of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Know you not, that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether of sin that leads to death, or of obedience that leads to righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were entrusted.
But thanks be to God, that though you were the servants of sin, yet you have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching, in which you have been instructed;
18 Being made free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
and being made free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness.
19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
I speak of what is common among men, oil account of the weakness of your flesh: for as you have presented your members as servants to uncleanness, and to lawlessness, in order to lawlessness, so now present your members as servants to righteousness, in order to holiness.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
For when you were the servants of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness.
21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
What fruit, therefore, had you at that time, in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22 But now, being made free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of everlasting life. (aiōnios g166)
But now, since you have been made free from sin, and have become servants to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
