Romans 6
6
Formerly Dead to Sin, Now Alive in Christ
1 What therefore shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, in order that grace may increase? 2May it never be! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may live a new way of life#Literally “in newness of life”. 5For if we have become identified with him in the likeness of his death, certainly also we will be identified with him in the likeness#The elliptical phrase “identified with him in the likeness” has been supplied in the translation for clarity of his resurrection, 6knowing this, that our old man was crucified together with him, in order that the body of sin may be done away with, that we may no longer be enslaved to sin. 7For the one who has died has been freed from sin.
8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, 9knowing that Christ, because he#*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“has been raised”) which is understood as causal has been raised from the dead, is going to die no more, death no longer being master over him. 10For that death he died, he died to sin once and never again, but that life he lives, he lives to God. 11So also you, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires, 13and do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness. 14For sin will not be master over you, because you are not under law, but under grace.
Set Free from Sin
15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! 16Do you not know that to whomever you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to whomever you obey, whether sin, leading to death, or obedience, leading to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God that you were slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted, 18and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. 19(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you presented your members as slaves to immorality and lawlessness, leading to lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification. 20For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness.
21Therefore what sort of fruit did you have then, about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22But now, having been set free from sin and having been enslaved to God, you have your fruit leading to sanctification, and its end is eternal life. 23For the compensation due sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Romans 6
6
1WHAT shall we say, then? shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2God forbid. For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?
3Know you not that all we, who are baptized in Christ Jesus, are baptized in his death?
4For we are buried together with him by baptism into death; that as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life.
5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.
6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer.
7For he that is dead is justified from sin.
8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ:
9Knowing that Christ rising again from the dead, dieth now no more, death shall no more have dominion over him.
10For in that he died to sin, he died once; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God:
11So do you also reckon, that you are dead to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12Let no sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.
13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin; but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of justice unto God.
14For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under the law, but under grace.
15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto justice.
17But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin, but have obeyed from the heart, unto that form of doctrine, into which you have been delivered.
18Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.
19I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity; so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification.
20For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice.
21What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.
22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting.
23For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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