Romans 6
6
Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ
1 What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, so that grace may increase? 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or are you ignorant of the fact that all who have been baptised into Christ Jesus have been baptised into His death? 4 Therefore, we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we are to walk in the newness of life. 5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly also we will be united with Him in a resurrection like His.* 6 Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, so that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we might no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For the one who has died has been set free from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.* 9 Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer gains mastery over Him. 10 For the death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 So also you must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.*
12 Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its inordinate desires, 13 nor present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin; but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin will not gain mastery over you, for you are not under Law, but under grace.
Positive and Negative Spiritual Enslavement
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under Law but under grace? May it never be! 16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to that same one* whom you obey—either of sin, leading to death, or of obedience, leading to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves of sin, you have become obedient from the heart to the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted. 18 And having been liberated from sin, you have become slaves to righteousness.
19 I am speaking in human terms on account of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, resulting in yet more* lawlessness,* so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness. 21 Therefore, what fruit were you having then, in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end result of those things is death. 22 But now, having been liberated from sin and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit, resulting in sanctification, and its end result is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Notes
5 Greek certainly also we will be of the [His] resurrection
8 Some ancient manuscripts read Christ in place of Him
11 Some ancient manuscripts read Christ Jesus our Lord
16 The intensive/emphatic pronoun construction that same one is supplied to the text on a contextual basis for the purpose of clarification
19 The comparative intensifier yet more is supplied to the text on a contextual basis for the purpose of clarification
19 One ancient Greek manuscript omits resulting in yet more lawlessness
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Copyright © 2026 Michael Adeyemi Adegbola. This Scripture text is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
