Romans 6
1 What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound?
What then shall we say? Shall we continue to abound in sin, in order that grace may come to abound?
2 let it not be! we who died to the sin — how shall we still live in it?
No indeed; how shall we who have died to sin still go on living in it any longer?
3 are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized?
For do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Jesus Christ, have been baptized into his death?
4 we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.
We have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a newness of life.
5 For, if we have become planted together to the likeness of his death, [so] also we shall be of the rising again;
For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, so we shall also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection.
6 this knowing, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;
For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin -
7 for he who hath died hath been set free from the sin.
for he who is dead is set free from sin.
8 And if we died with Christ, we believe that we also shall live with him,
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
9 knowing that Christ, having been raised up out of the dead, doth no more die, death over him hath no more lordship;
knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.
10 for in that he died, to the sin he died once, and in that he liveth, he liveth to God;
For the death that he died, he died unto sin once for all; but the life that he lives he is living unto God.
11 so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Even so count yourselves also to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.
12 Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;
Therefore let not sin rule as king in your mortal body, compelling you to obey its lusts.
13 neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;
Do not continue to present any part of your body to sin to be used as a weapon of unrighteousness. On the contrary, be presenting yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and the various parts of your bodies to be used as weapons of righteousness.
14 for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.
For sin shall not lord it over you; for you are not under the rule of law, but under the rule of grace.
15 What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!
What then? Shall we commit an act of sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not.
16 have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
Do you not know that when you surrender yourselves as slaves to any one to obey him, you are his slaves whom you obey; whether it be sin, whose end is death, or obedience, whose end is righteousness?
17 and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and — were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;
But God be thanked that you who were once the slaves of sin have obeyed from your hearts that type of teaching to which you were appointed;
18 and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.
and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness -
19 In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness — to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness — to sanctification,
I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature - just as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.
20 for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness,
For when you were the slaves of sin, you were under no subjection to righteousness.
21 what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those [is] death.
What harvest-fruit then had you at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22 And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit — to sanctification, and the end life age-during; (aiōnios g166)
But now that you have been set free from sin and become slaves of God, the harvest-fruit which you are reaping tends to produce holiness, and it ends is life eternal. (aiōnios g166)
