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. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?
3 Do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus 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.
We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might 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 become united with [him] by the likeness of his death, we shall be also [by 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 was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;
7 He who has died is declared righteous with respect to sin.
for he that hath died is justified from sin.
8 But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live together with him.
But if we died 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 dieth no more; death no more hath 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 the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11 In the same way, you also must consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.
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 ye should obey 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 present your members unto sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto 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 ye are not under 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 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 ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves [as] servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto 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 thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;
18 You have been made free from sin, and you have been made slaves of righteousness.
and being made free from sin, ye became 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 ye presented your members [as] servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members [as] servants to righteousness unto sanctification.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.
For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of 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 then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
