Romans 6
6
Sin’s Power Is Broken
1Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of his wonderful grace? 2Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it? 3Or have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death? 4For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.
5Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was. 6We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. 7For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin. 8And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him. 9We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him. 10When he died, he died once to break the power of sin. But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God. 11So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus.
12Do not let sin control the way you live;#6:12 Or Do not let sin reign in your body, which is subject to death. do not give in to sinful desires. 13Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God. 14Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace.
15Well then, since God’s grace has set us free from the law, does that mean we can go on sinning? Of course not! 16Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living. 17Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have given you. 18Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living.
19Because of the weakness of your human nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living so that you will become holy.
20When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the obligation to do right. 21And what was the result? You are now ashamed of the things you used to do, things that end in eternal doom. 22But now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life. 23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Romans 6
6
Freedom from Sin; Life in God. 1#To defend the gospel against the charge that it promotes moral laxity (cf. Rom 3:5–8), Paul expresses himself in the typical style of spirited diatribe. God’s display of generosity or grace is not evoked by sin but, as stated in Rom 5:8 is the expression of God’s love, and this love pledges eternal life to all believers (Rom 5:21). Paul views the present conduct of the believers from the perspective of God’s completed salvation when the body is resurrected and directed totally by the holy Spirit. Through baptism believers share the death of Christ and thereby escape from the grip of sin. Through the resurrection of Christ the power to live anew becomes reality for them, but the fullness of participation in Christ’s resurrection still lies in the future. But life that is lived in dedication to God now is part and parcel of that future. Hence anyone who sincerely claims to be interested in that future will scarcely be able to say, “Let us sin so that grace may prosper” (cf. Rom 6:1). What then shall we say? Shall we persist in sin that grace may abound? Of course not!#3:5–8. 2How can we who died to sin yet live in it?#1 Pt 4:1. 3Or are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?#Gal 3:27. 4We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in newness of life.#Col 2:12; 1 Pt 3:21–22.
5For if we have grown into union with him through a death like his, we shall also be united with him in the resurrection.#Phil 3:10–11; 2 Tm 2:11. 6We know that our old self was crucified with him, so that our sinful body might be done away with, that we might no longer be in slavery to sin.#Gal 5:24; 6:14; Eph 4:22–23. 7For a dead person has been absolved from sin. 8If, then, we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.#1 Thes 4:17. 9We know that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over him.#Acts 13:34; 1 Cor 15:26; 2 Tm 1:10; Rev 1:18. 10As to his death, he died to sin once and for all; as to his life, he lives for God.#Heb 9:26–28; 1 Pt 3:18. 11Consequently, you too must think of yourselves as [being] dead to sin and living for God in Christ Jesus.#2 Cor 5:15; 1 Pt 2:24.
12#Christians have been released from the grip of sin, but sin endeavors to reclaim its victims. The antidote is constant remembrance that divine grace has claimed them and identifies them as people who are alive only for God’s interests. Therefore, sin must not reign over your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires.#Gn 4:7. 13And do not present the parts of your bodies to sin as weapons for wickedness, but present yourselves to God as raised from the dead to life and the parts of your bodies to God as weapons for righteousness.#12:1; Eph 2:5; 5:14 / Col 3:5. 14For sin is not to have any power over you, since you are not under the law but under grace.#Gal 5:18; 1 Jn 3:6.
15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Of course not!#5:17, 21. 16Do you not know that if you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves,#Jn 8:32–36. you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?#Jn 8:31–34; 2 Pt 2:19. 17But thanks be to God that, although you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from the heart to the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted.#In contrast to humanity, which was handed over to self-indulgence (Rom 1:24–32), believers are entrusted (“handed over”) to God’s pattern of teaching, that is, the new life God aims to develop in Christians through the productivity of the holy Spirit. Throughout this passage Paul uses the slave-master model in order to emphasize the fact that one cannot give allegiance to both God and sin. 18Freed from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness. 19I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature. For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification. 20#Jn 8:34. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.#You were free from righteousness: expressed ironically, for such freedom is really tyranny. The commercial metaphors in Rom 6:21–23 add up only one way: sin is a bad bargain. 21But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.#8:6, 13; Prv 12:28; Ez 16:61, 63. 22But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit that you have leads to sanctification,#Sanctification: or holiness. and its end is eternal life.#1 Pt 1:9. 23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.#Gn 2:17; Gal 6:7–9; Jas 1:15.
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