Romans 6
1 What shall we say then? Let us continue in sin, that grace may abound still more?
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid! How shall we, who died to sin, live any longer in it?
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3 Are ye ignorant, that all of us who were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death?
Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 We then by this baptism into his death were buried with him; that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been made completely like him in his death, we shall be made like him in his resurrection also;
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we might no longer be in slavery to sin;
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin.
7 for he that hath died hath been set free from sin.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8 And if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9 since we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dieth no more; death hath dominion over him no longer.
Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he died, he died to sin once for all; but in that he liveth, he liveth to God.
For in that he died, he died to sin once: but in that he lives, he lives to God.
11 Thus do ye too consider yourselves as dead to sin, but alive to God, through Jesus Christ.
Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Let not then sin reign in your mortal body, bringing you into subjection to its lusts,
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 nor yield up your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but yield up yourselves to God, as being alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
Neither yield you your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin: but yield yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
14 For sin shall not hold dominion over you; for ye are not under the Law, but under grace.
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? Are we to sin, because we are not under the Law, but under grace? God forbid!
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that whomever ye choose to obey as a master, his bondmen ye are, whether of sin whose fruit is death, or of obedience whose fruit is righteousness?
Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God that, though ye were the bondmen of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching which was delivered to you;
But God be thanked, that you were the servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
18 and being made free from sin, ye became the bondmen of righteousness.
Being then made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness.
19 I speak in a way common among men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as ye once yielded your members as slaves to impurity and to iniquity, in order to commit iniquity, so now yield your members as bondmen to righteousness in order to become holy.
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity to iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness to holiness.
20 For when ye were the slaves of sin, ye were not the bondmen of righteousness.
For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
21 What fruit then had ye at that time from those things of which ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
What fruit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
22 But now having been delivered from the slavery of sin, and having become the bondservants of God, ye have holiness as the fruit, and everlasting life as the end. (aiōnios g166)
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life. (aiōnios g166)
