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 to abound in sin, in order that grace may come to abound?
2 Absolutely not. We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
No indeed; how shall we who have died to sin still go on living in it any longer?
3 Or do you not know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
For do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Jesus Christ, have been baptized 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.
We have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a newness of 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 with him in the likeness of his death, so we shall also be united with him in 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.
For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin -
7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
for he who is dead is set free 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.
knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.
10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
For the death that he died, he died unto sin once for all; but the life that he lives he is living unto God.
11 In the same way, consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Even so count yourselves also to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
Therefore let not sin rule as king in your mortal body, compelling you to obey its lusts.
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.
Do not continue to present any part of your body to sin to be used as a weapon of unrighteousness. On the contrary, be presenting yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and the various parts of your bodies to be used as weapons of righteousness.
14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
For sin shall not lord it over you; for you are not under the rule of law, but under the rule of grace.
15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Absolutely not.
What then? Shall we commit an act of sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not.
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?
Do you not know that when you surrender yourselves as slaves to any one to obey him, you are his slaves whom you obey; whether it be sin, whose end is death, or obedience, whose end is 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 God be thanked that you who were once the slaves of sin have obeyed from your hearts that type of teaching to which you were appointed;
18 Being made free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
and being set free from sin, you became the slaves 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 in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature - just as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
For when you were the slaves of sin, you were under no subjection 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 harvest-fruit then had you at that time in the 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 that you have been set free from sin and become slaves of God, the harvest-fruit which you are reaping tends to produce holiness, and it ends is life eternal. (aiōnios g166)
