Romans 6
1 What are we to say, then? Are we to continue to sin, in order that God’s loving kindness may be multiplied?
WHAT, then, shall we say, Let us remain in sin, that grace may abound?
2 Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, so how can we go on living in it?
Not so. For how shall they who are dead to sin live yet in it?
3 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?
Or do you not know, that they who have been baptized into Jeshu Meshiha, into his death have been baptized?
4 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.
For we are buried with him by baptism into death; that as Jeshu Meshiha arose from among the dead by the glory of his Father, so also we in a new life shall walk.
5 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.
For if together we have been planted with him in the likeness of his death, so also in his resurrection shall we be.
6 We recognize 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.
For we know that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be abolished, that more we should not serve sin.
7 For the man who has so died has been pronounced righteous and released from sin.
For he who is dead is set free from sin.
8 And our belief is, that, as we have shared Christ’s death, we will also share his life.
If then we are dead with the Meshiha, we believe that with him, with the Meshiha, we shall live:
9 We know, indeed, that Christ, having once risen from the dead, will not die again. Death has power over him no longer.
for we know that the Meshiha rose from among the dead, and no more dieth, nor hath death dominion over him.
10 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.
For he who died on account of sin died once, and he who liveth liveth unto Aloha;
11 So let it be with you – regard yourselves as dead to sin, but as living for God, through union with Christ Jesus.
so also reckon yourselves to be dead unto sin, and alive unto Aloha by our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies and compel you to obey its cravings.
Let not sin then reign in your dead body, as that you may obey the lusts of it:
13 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.
nor prepare your members the instruments of iniquity unto sin, but prepare yourselves for Aloha, as men who from the dead have been made alive, and your members instruments to be for the righteousness of Aloha.
14 For sin will not lord it over you. You are living under the reign, not of Law, but of love.
For sin shall not rule over you; for you are not under law, but under grace.
15 What follows, then? Are we to sin because we are living under the reign of love and not of Law? Heaven forbid!
What, then, shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? Not so.
16 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.
Know you not, that to whomsoever you prepare yourselves to obey him unto service, of him you are the servants, of him whom you obey; whether of sin, or of the hearing of the ear of righteousness?
17 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.
But praise to Aloha that you were the servants of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of doctrine to which you have been delivered.
18 Set free from the control of sin, you became servants to righteousness.
And when you were made free from sin, you became obedient to righteousness.
19 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.
As among men I speak, because of the infirmity of your flesh, that as you have prepared your members for the service of uncleanness and of iniquity, so also now prepare ye your members for the service of righteousness and of holiness.
20 While you were still servants of sin, you were free as regards righteousness.
For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
21 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.
And what product had you then from that of which to-day you are ashamed? For the end of it is death.
22 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)
And now made free from sin, and become servants to Aloha, you have holy fruits, of which the end is the life of eternity. (aiōnios g166)
