Romans 6
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1So what's our response? Should we continue to sin so we can have even more grace? 2Of course not!#6:2. Literally, “may it not be so!” This vigorous reaction is variously translated: Certainly not! By no means! God forbid! Also in 6:15 etc. Since we're already dead to sin, how can we continue to live in sin? 3Don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4Through baptism we were buried with him in death so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father we too can live a new life. 5If we've become one with him in dying like he did, then we'll be raised like him too.
6We know that our old self was crucified with him to dispose of the dead body of sin so that we wouldn't be enslaved by sin any longer. 7Anyone who has died has been set free from sin. 8Since we died with Christ, we have confidence that we will also live with him, 9for we know that because Christ has been raised from the dead he won't ever die, because death has no longer any power over him. 10In dying, he died to sin once and for all, but now he lives, and he lives for God! 11In just the same way you should consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God through Christ Jesus. 12Don't let sin have control over your mortal body, don't give in to its temptations, 13and don't use any parts of your body as evil tools of sin. Instead dedicate yourselves to God as those who have been brought back from death to life, and use all parts of your body as tools to do something good for God. 14Sin won't rule over you, because you're not under law but under grace.
15So then, should we sin because we're not under law, but under grace? Of course not! 16Don't you realize that if you make yourselves someone's slaves, obeying their orders, then you are slaves to the one you obey? If you are slaves of sin, the result is death; if you obey God, the result is you are made right with him. 17Thank God that though you once were slaves to sin, you whole-heartedly chose to follow the truth about God that you learned. 18Now that you've been freed from sin, you've become slaves of doing what is morally right.
19I'm using this everyday example because your human thinking is limited. Just as you once enslaved yourselves to immorality, piling up sin upon sin, now you must enslave yourselves to what is pure and right. 20When you were slaves to sin you were not required to do what's right. 21But what were the results back then? Aren't you ashamed of the things you did? Such things that lead to death! 22But now that you're set free from sin, and have become God's slaves, the results will be a pure life—and in the end, eternal life. 23The wage sin pays is death, but God's free gift is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Romans 6
6
1What then shall we say? Are we to persist in Chet (sin) in order that the unmerited Chen v'Chesed Hashem might increase?
2Chas v'shalom! Vi-bahlt (since) we have died to Chet, how can we still live in it?
3Or do you lack da'as that all we who were given a mikveh mayim tevilah into Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua were given a tevilah into Moshiachʼs histalkus, into his mavet (death)?
4So then we were co-buried, buried together with KIVRO#6:4 Isa 53:9 (Moshiachʼs kever) through a tevilah into mavet, in order that, just as Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was given the Techiyah (Resurrection) from HaMesim (the Dead ones) through the Kavod HaAv, so we also should have a halakhah (walk) [lifnei Hashem] in hitkhadshut (renewal, regeneration), in Chayyim Chadashim (New Life).
5For if we have become grown together with the very likeness of his histalkus, his mavet (death), we shall certainly also be grown together with the very likeness of his Techiyah from HaMesim (Resurrection).
6Having da'as of this, that, with Moshiach, our old humanity (in Adam) has been put to death on Moshiachʼs Etz#6:6 Dt 21:23 (Tree, [the Etz HaKelelat Hashem], the Tree of the Curse of G-d) in order that the etsem HaAdam HaChet (the essence of the sinful human condition) might be done away with, so that we might no longer serve Chet (sin).#6:6 cf. Ro 6:23
7For he who has died is declared niftar (freed, deceased) from Chet.
8But if we have died with Moshiach, we believe that we shall also live with him,
9Having da'as that Moshiach, having been given the Techiyah (Resurrection) from the Mesim (Dead ones), no longer dies, Mavet (death) and Histalkus no longer exercise control over him.
10For the Mavet Moshiach died, he died to Chet (sin) once and for all; but the Chayyim Moshiach lives, he lives to Hashem.
11So also you must reckon yourselves mesim (dead ones) to Chet (Sin) but Chayyim l'Hashem baMoshiach Yehoshua (alive to G-d in Messiah Yehoshua).
12Therefore, do not let Chet (Sin) reign in your mortal body to obey its ta'avot,#6:12 Ro 5:17,21
13And do not give Chet (sin) control of your natural capacities as neshek (weapons) of peysha (unrighteousness, transgression), but present yourselves to Hashem as ones alive from the Mesim and present to Hashem your natural capacities as neshek (weapons) of Tzedek Olamim.
14For Chet (sin) shall not exercise bailus (sovereignty, ownership, dominion) over you; for you are not under Gezetz#6:14 Ro 8:2 but under Chesed (Grace).
15What then? Should we commit averah, because we are not under Gezetz#6:15 see Ro 8:2 (Law) but under Chesed (Grace)? Chas v'shalom!
16Do you not know that when you give control of yourselves as someoneʼs avadim (slaves) to obey him, you are the avadim (slaves) of the one you obey, whether of Chet (Sin) resulting in mavet (death), or of Lishmo'a b'kol Hashem (Listening to the voice of Hashem, mishma'at, obedience) resulting in Tzedek Olamim?
17But Baruch Hashem (Blessed be G-d) that you used to be avadim (slaves) of#6:17 slave master Chet, but you gave your mishma'at shebalev (obedience from the heart) to the pattern of Torah#6:17 Isa 42:4 (the pnimiyus Torah of Moshiach) to which you were handed over.
18Having been set free from#6:18 slave master Chet (sin), you became an eved of the Tzidkat Hashem (the righteousness of G-d).
19I speak in human terms on account of the weakness of your frail fallen humanity. For just as you handed over your natural capacities as avadim (slaves) to tum'a (uncleanness) and to lawlessness which results in lawlessness, so now hand over your natural capacities as servants of Tzidkat Hashem which results in kedushah (holiness).
20For when you were avadim (slaves) of Chet, you were free in relation to Tzedek Olamim.
21What p'ri for Hashem did you produce then? Things for which you now have bushah (shame), for the end result of those things is mavet (death).
22But now, having been set free from#6:22 slave master Chet (sin) and having been made an eved Hashem (a servant of G-d), you have your p'ri for Hashem, resulting in kedushah, and the end is Chayyei Olam (Eternal Life).
23For the loin (wages) that#6:23 slave master Chet (Sin) pays out of its own payroll is mavet (death); however, the gracious matnat hachesed Hashem (the gift of the grace of G-d) is Chayyei Olam baMoshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu.
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