Romans 6
1 What then will we say? Should we continue in sin so that grace may abound?
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 May it never be. We who died to sin, how can we still live in it?
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3 Do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus 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 were buried, then, with him through baptism into death. This happened in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we 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 become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be united with his resurrection.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 We know this, that our old man was crucified with him, in order that the body of sin might be destroyed. This happened so that we should no longer be enslaved 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 He who has died is declared righteous with respect to sin.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8 But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live together with him.
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9 We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead he cannot die again; death no longer has authority over him.
Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.
10 For in regard to the death that he died to sin, he died once for all. However, the life that he lives, he lives for God.
For in that he died, he died to sin once: but in that he lives, he lives to God.
11 In the same way, you also must consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Therefore do not let sin rule in your mortal body in order that you may obey its lusts.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Do not present the parts of your body to sin, to be tools used for unrighteousness. But present yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life, and present the parts of your body to God as tools to be used for 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 Do not allow sin to rule over you. For you are not under 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? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be.
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Do you not know that the one to whom you present yourselves as slaves is the one to which you are obedient, the one you must obey? This is true whether you are slaves to sin which leads to death, or slaves to obedience which leads to 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! For you were slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching that you were given.
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 You have been made free from sin, and you have been made slaves of righteousness.
Being then made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness.
19 I speak like a man because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented the parts of your body as slaves to uncleanness and to evil, in the same way now, present the parts of your body as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
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 you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
21 At that time, what fruit then did you have of the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome 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.
