Romans 6
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid! how shall we, who are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
3 Know ye not, that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death?
Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life:
We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just 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 been planted together in the resemblance of his death, so shall we be also of his resurrection.
For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we might no longer be inslaved to sin:
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
7 for he that is thus dead with Christ, is delivered from sin.
For he who has died has been freed from sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him:
But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,
9 knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more power over Him: for as He died, He died once for all on account of sin;
knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!
10 but as He liveth, He liveth unto God.
For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
11 So also do ye reckon yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to obey it in the lusts thereof.
Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
13 Neither yield your bodies as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
14 For sin shall have no power over you, inasmuch as ye are not under the law, but under grace.
For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace?
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
16 God forbid! Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves servants to obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey? either of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God, that ye who were servants of sin, have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you:
But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
18 and being set free from sin, ye are become the servants of righteousness.
Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
19 I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh: as ye have yielded your bodies servants to impurity and iniquity to work iniquity; so now present your bodies servants to righteousness, unto holiness.
I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
20 For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
21 What fruit therefore had ye then in the things, which ye are now ashamed of? for the end of those things is death.
What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
