Romans 6
1 What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound?
What shall we say then? Let us continue in sin, that grace may abound still more?
2 let it not be! we who died to the sin — how shall we still live in it?
God forbid! How shall we, who died to sin, live any longer in it?
3 are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized?
Are ye ignorant, that all of us who were baptized into Jesus Christ, were 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 then by this baptism into his death were buried with him; that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, so we also might walk in 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 been made completely like him in his death, we shall be made like him in his resurrection also;
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;
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we might no longer be in slavery to sin;
7 for he who hath died hath been set free from the sin.
for he that hath died hath been set free from sin.
8 And if we died with Christ, we believe that we also shall live with him,
And if we 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;
since we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dieth no more; death hath dominion over him no longer.
10 for in that he died, to the sin he died once, and in that he liveth, he liveth to God;
For in that he died, he died to sin once for all; but in that he liveth, he liveth to God.
11 so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Thus do ye too consider yourselves as dead to sin, but alive to God, through Jesus Christ.
12 Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;
Let not then sin reign in your mortal body, bringing you into subjection to 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;
nor yield up your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but yield up yourselves to God, as being alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
14 for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.
For sin shall not hold dominion over you; for ye are not under the Law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!
What then? Are we to sin, because we are not under the Law, but under grace? God forbid!
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?
Know ye not, that whomever ye choose to obey as a master, his bondmen ye are, whether of sin whose fruit is death, or of obedience whose fruit 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 thanks be to God that, though ye were the bondmen of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching which was delivered to you;
18 and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.
and being made free from sin, ye became the bondmen 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 a way common among men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as ye once yielded your members as slaves to impurity and to iniquity, in order to commit iniquity, so now yield your members as bondmen to righteousness in order to become holy.
20 for when ye were servants of the sin, ye were free from the righteousness,
For when ye were the slaves of sin, ye were not the bondmen of 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 fruit then had ye at that time from those things of which ye 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 having been delivered from the slavery of sin, and having become the bondservants of God, ye have holiness as the fruit, and everlasting life as the end. (aiōnios g166)
