Popular Bible Verses from Romans 6

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When you worked for sin, the pay you got from it was death. But now you’re working for God because you’ve gotten a gift: eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

Sin won’t control you anymore, because you’re not ruled by the law, you’re ruled by God’s grace.

By being baptized, we were buried with Christ and joined him in death. But Christ has been raised from the dead by the Father’s glory, and like Christ we too can live a new life.

Don’t offer any part of yourself to serve sin and do what’s wrong. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life. Offer every part of yourself to God to do what’s right.

We know that our old self was nailed to the cross with him. That happened so that our bodies that were so used to sinning wouldn’t control us anymore. Now we’re not slaves of sin any longer.

In the same way, consider yourselves to be dead as far as sin is concerned, but consider yourselves alive in Christ Jesus as far as God is concerned.

What should we say then? Should we keep on sinning so that God’s grace can increase? No! As far as sin is concerned, we’re dead. So how can we keep on sinning?

Don’t you know that when you agree to obey someone the way a slave would, you become a slave to that person? If you’re slaves of sin, then you will die. But if you’re slaves who obey God, then you’ll live a godly life.

You used to be slaves of sin. But thank God that with your whole heart, you’ve now obeyed the teachings you were given! You’ve been set free from sin and have become slaves to living in the right way.