Romans 6
1 To what conclusion, then, shall we come? Are we to persist in sinning in order that the grace extended to us may be the greater?
What then shall we say? are we still to continue in sin that favour may abound?
2 No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?
Far be it! we who have died unto sin, how, any longer, shall we live therein?
3 And do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
Or know ye not that, we, as many as were immersed into Christ [Jesus], into his death were immersed?
4 Well, then, we by our baptism were buried with Him in death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from among the dead by the Father's glorious power, we also should live an entirely new life.
We were, therefore, buried together with him through our immersion into his death, in order that—just as Christ was raised from among the dead through the glory of the Father, so, we also, in newness of life should walk.
5 For since we have become one with Him by sharing in His death, we shall also be one with Him by sharing in His resurrection.
For, if we have come to be grown together in the likeness of his death, certainly, in that of his resurrection also, shall we be.
6 This we know--that our old self was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our sinful nature might be deprived of its power, so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin;
Of this taking note—that, our old man, was crucified together with him in order that the sinful body might be made powerless, that we should, no longer, be in servitude to sin;
7 for he who has paid the penalty of death stands absolved from his sin.
For, he that hath died, hath become righteously acquitted from his sin.
8 But, seeing that we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him;
Now, if we have died together with Christ, we believe that we shall also live together with him;
9 because we know that Christ, having come back to life, is no longer liable to die.
Knowing that, Christ having been raised from among the dead, no more dieth, —death, over him, no more, hath lordship, —
10 Death has no longer any power over Him. For by the death which He died He became, once for all, dead in relation to sin; but by the life which He now lives He is alive in relation to God.
For, in that he died, unto sin, died he once for all, but, in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
11 In the same way you also must regard yourselves as dead in relation to sin, but as alive in relation to God, because you are in Christ Jesus.
So, ye also, be reckoning yourselves to be—dead indeed unto sin, but, alive unto God in Christ Jesus.
12 Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies, causing you to be in subjection to their cravings;
Let not sin, therefore, reign in your death-doomed body, that ye should be obedient to its covetings;
13 and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin to use. On the contrary surrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead, and surrender your several faculties to God, to be used as weapons to maintain the right.
Neither be presenting your members as weapons of unrighteousness unto sin, but present yourselves unto God as though alive from among the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness unto God;
14 For Sin shall not be lord over you, since you are subjects not of Law, but of grace.
For, sin, over you, shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under favour.
15 Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under favour? Far be it!
16 Do you not know that if you surrender yourselves as bondservants to obey any one, you become the bondservants of him whom you obey, whether the bondservants of Sin (with death as the result) or of Duty (resulting in righteousness)?
Know ye not that, unto whom ye are presenting yourselves as servants for obedience, servants ye are unto [him unto] whom ye are obedient, whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God that though you were once in thraldom to Sin, you have now yielded a hearty obedience to that system of truth in which you have been instructed.
But thanks be unto God, that—whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient out of the heart unto the mould of teaching into which ye were delivered;
18 You were set free from the tyranny of Sin, and became the bondservants of Righteousness--
And, being freed from sin, ye were made servants unto righteousness; —
19 your human infirmity leads me to employ these familiar figures--and just as you once surrendered your faculties into bondage to Impurity and ever-increasing disregard of Law, so you must now surrender them into bondage to Righteousness ever advancing towards perfect holiness.
In human fashion am I speaking, because of the weakness of your flesh; —for, just as ye presented your members as servants unto impurity and unto lawlessness [for lawlessness], so now, present ye your members as servants unto righteousness for sanctification.
20 For when you were the bondservants of sin, you were under no sort of subjection to Righteousness.
For, when ye were servants of sin, ye were free as to righteousness; —
21 At that time, then, what benefit did you get from conduct which you now regard with shame? Why, such things finally result in death.
What fruit, therefore, had ye then—in things for which ye now are taking shame to yourselves? For, the end of those things, is death.
22 But now that you have been set free from the tyranny of Sin, and have become the bondservants of God, you have your reward in being made holy, and you have the Life of the Ages as the final result. (aiōnios g166)
Whereas, now, having been freed from sin, and made servants unto God, ye have your fruit for sanctification and, the end, life age-abiding. (aiōnios g166)
