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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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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