Romans 6
1 What should we say then? Should we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
這樣，怎麼說呢？我們可以仍在罪中、叫恩典顯多嗎？
2 Absolutely not. We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
斷乎不可！我們在罪上死了的人豈可仍在罪中活着呢？
3 Or do you not know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
豈不知我們這受洗歸入基督耶穌的人是受洗歸入他的死嗎？
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.
所以，我們藉着洗禮歸入死，和他一同埋葬，原是叫我們一舉一動有新生的樣式，像基督藉着父的榮耀從死裏復活一樣。
5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
我們若在他死的形狀上與他聯合，也要在他復活的形狀上與他聯合；
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.
因為知道我們的舊人和他同釘十字架，使罪身滅絕，叫我們不再作罪的奴僕；
7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
因為已死的人是脫離了罪。
8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;
我們若是與基督同死，就信必與他同活。
9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him.
因為知道基督既從死裏復活，就不再死，死也不再作他的主了。
10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
他死是向罪死了，只有一次；他活是向上帝活着。
11 In the same way, consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
這樣，你們向罪也當看自己是死的；向上帝在基督耶穌裏，卻當看自己是活的。
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
所以，不要容罪在你們必死的身上作王，使你們順從身子的私慾。
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.
也不要將你們的肢體獻給罪作不義的器具；倒要像從死裏復活的人，將自己獻給上帝，並將肢體作義的器具獻給上帝。
14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
罪必不能作你們的主；因你們不在律法之下，乃在恩典之下。
15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Absolutely not.
這卻怎麼樣呢？我們在恩典之下，不在律法之下，就可以犯罪嗎？斷乎不可！
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?
豈不曉得你們獻上自己作奴僕，順從誰，就作誰的奴僕嗎？或作罪的奴僕，以至於死；或作順命的奴僕，以致成義。
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.
感謝上帝！因為你們從前雖然作罪的奴僕，現今卻從心裏順服了所傳給你們道理的模範。
18 Being made free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
你們既從罪裏得了釋放，就作了義的奴僕。
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.
我因你們肉體的軟弱，就照人的常話對你們說。你們從前怎樣將肢體獻給不潔不法作奴僕，以至於不法；現今也要照樣將肢體獻給義作奴僕，以至於成聖。
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
因為你們作罪之奴僕的時候，就不被義約束了。
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.
你們現今所看為羞恥的事，當日有甚麼果子呢？那些事的結局就是死。
