Romans 6
6
Dead to Sin but Alive in Christ
1So do you think we should continue sinning so that God will give us more and more grace? 2Of course not! Our old sinful life ended. It’s dead. So how can we continue living in sin? 3Did you forget that all of us became part of Christ Jesus when we were baptized? In our baptism we shared in his death. 4So when we were baptized, we were buried with Christ and took part in his death. And just as Christ was raised from death by the wonderful power of the Father, so we can now live a new life.
5Christ died, and we have been joined with him by dying too. So we will also be joined with him by rising from death as he did. 6We know that our old life was put to death on the cross with Christ. This happened so that our sinful selves would have no power over us. Then we would not be slaves to sin. 7Anyone who has died is made free from sin’s control.
8If we died with Christ, we know that we will also live with him. 9Christ was raised from death. And we know that he cannot die again. Death has no power over him now. 10Yes, when Christ died, he died to defeat the power of sin one time—enough for all time. He now has a new life, and his new life is with God. 11In the same way, you should see yourselves as being dead to the power of sin and alive for God through Christ Jesus.
12But don’t let sin control your life here on earth. You must not be ruled by the things your sinful self makes you want to do. 13Don’t offer the parts of your body to serve sin. Don’t use your bodies to do evil, but offer yourselves to God, as people who have died and now live. Offer the parts of your body to God to be used for doing good. 14Sin will not be your master, because you are not under law. You now live under God’s grace.
Slaves of Goodness
15So what should we do? Should we sin because we are under grace and not under law? Certainly not! 16Surely you know that you become the slaves of whatever you give yourselves to. Anything or anyone you follow will be your master. You can follow sin, or you can obey God. Following sin brings spiritual death, but obeying God makes you right with him. 17In the past you were slaves to sin—sin controlled you. But thank God, you fully obeyed what you were taught. 18You were made free from sin, and now you are slaves to what is right. 19I use this example from everyday life because you need help in understanding spiritual truths. In the past you offered the parts of your body to be slaves to your immoral and sinful thoughts. The result was that you lived only for sin. In the same way, you must now offer yourselves to be slaves to what is right. Then you will live only for God.
20In the past you were slaves to sin, and you did not even think about doing right. 21You did evil things, and now you are ashamed of what you did. Did those things help you? No, they only brought death. 22But now you are free from sin. You have become slaves of God, and the result is that you live only for God. This will bring you eternal life. 23When people sin, they earn what sin pays—death. But God gives his people a free gift—eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Romans 6
6
The New Life in Christ
1What should we say then? # Rm 3:5 Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply? # Rm 3:8; 6:15 2Absolutely not! # Lk 20:16 How can we who died to sin # Rm 7:4,6; Gl 2:19; Col 2:20; 3:3; 1Pt 2:24 still live in it? 3Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized # Mt 28:19; 1Co 1:13-17; 12:13; Gl 3:27 into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? # Ac 2:38; 8:16; 19:5 4Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, # Col 2:12 in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead # Ac 2:24 by the glory of the Father, # Jn 11:40; 2Co 13:4 so we too may walk in a new way # Or in newness of life. # Rm 7:6; 2Co 5:17; Gl 6:15; Eph 4:23-24; Col 3:10 5For if we have been joined with Him in the likeness of His death, # 2Co 4:10; Php 3:10; Col 2:12; 3:1 we will certainly also be # Be joined with Him in the likeness of His resurrection. 6For we know that our old self # Lit man ; = the person before conversion # Eph 4:22; Col 3:9 was crucified with Him # Gl 2:20; 5:24; 6:14 in order that sin’s dominion over the body # Lit that the body of sin may be abolished, # Rm 7:24 so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin, 7since a person who has died # 1Pt 4:1 is freed # Or justified ; lit acquitted from sin’s claims. # Lit from sin 8Now if we died with Christ, # 2Co 4:10; 2Tm 2:11 we believe that we will also live with Him, 9because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, # Ac 2:24 will not die again. Death no longer rules over Him. # Rv 1:18 10For in light of the fact that He died, He died to sin once for all; but in light of the fact that He lives, He lives to God. 11So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin # Rm 7:4,6; Gl 2:19; Col 2:20; 3:3; 1Pt 2:24 but alive to God in Christ Jesus. # Other mss add our Lord
12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey # Other mss add sin (lit it) in its desires. 13And do not offer any parts # Or members of it to sin # Rm 7:5; Col 3:5 as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, # Rm 12:1; 2Co 5:14; 1Pt 2:24 and all the parts # Or members of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness. 14For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under law # Rm 5:18; 7:4,6; Gl 4:21 but under grace. # Rm 5:17,21
From Slaves of Sin to Slaves of God
15What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? # Rm 6:1 Absolutely not! # Lk 20:16 16Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone # Lit that to whom you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, # Rm 11:2; 1Co 3:16; 5:6; 6:2-3,9,15-16,19; 9:13,24 you are slaves of that one you obey # Jn 8:34; 2Pt 2:19 — either of sin leading to death # Rm 6:23 or of obedience leading to righteousness? 17But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, # Rm 1:8; 2Co 2:14 you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were transferred # Or entrusted to, # 2Tm 1:3 18and having been liberated from sin, # Jn 8:32; Rm 8:2 you became enslaved to righteousness. 19I am using a human analogy # Lit I speak humanly ; Paul is personifying sin and righteousness as slave masters. # Rm 3:5 because of the weakness of your flesh. # Or your human nature For just as you offered the parts # Or members of yourselves as slaves to moral impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification. 20For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from allegiance to righteousness. # Lit free to righteousness # Mt 6:24 21So what fruit was produced # Lit what fruit do you have then from the things you are now ashamed of? # Jr 12:13; Ezk 16:63; Rm 7:5 For the end of those things is death. # Rm 1:32; 5:12; 8:6,13; Gl 6:8 22But now, since you have been liberated from sin and have become enslaved to God, # 1Co 7:22; 1Pt 2:16 you have your fruit, which results in sanctification # Or holiness # Rm 7:4 — and the end is eternal life! # 1Pt 1:9 23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. # Mt 25:46; Rm 5:21; 8:39
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