Romans 6
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
What are we to say, then? Are we to continue to sin, in order that God’s loving-kindness may be multiplied?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, and how can we go on living in it?
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Or can it be that you do not know that all of us, who were baptized into union with Christ Jesus, in our baptism shared his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Consequently, through sharing his death in our baptism, we were buried with him; that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by a manifestation of the Father’s power, so we also may live a new Life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of [his] resurrection:
If we have become united with him by the act symbolic of his death, surely we shall also become united with him by the act symbolic of his resurrection.
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
We recognise the truth that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the body, the stronghold of Sin, might be rendered powerless, so that we should no longer be slaves to Sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
For the man who has so died has been pronounced righteous and released from Sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
And our belief is, that, as we have shared Christ’s Death, we shall also share his Life.
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
We know, indeed, that Christ, having once risen from the dead, will not die again. Death has power over him no longer.
10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
For the death that he died was a death to sin, once and for all. But the Life that he now lives, he lives for God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
So let it be with you — regard yourselves as dead to sin, but as living for God, through union with Christ Jesus.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Therefore do not let Sin reign in your mortal bodies and compel you to obey its cravings.
13 Neither yield ye your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.
Do not offer any part of your bodies to Sin, in the cause of unrighteousness, but once for all offer yourselves to God (as those who, though once dead, now have Life), and devote every part of your bodies to the cause of righteousness.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
For Sin shall not lord it over you. You are living under the reign, not of Law, but of Love.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
What follows, then? Are we to sin because we are living under the reign of Love and not of Law? Heaven forbid!
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Surely you know that, when you offer yourselves as servants, to obey any one, you are the servants of the person whom you obey, whether the service be that of Sin which leads to Death, or that of Duty which leads to Righteousness.
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
God be thanked that, though you were once servants of Sin, yet you learned to give hearty obedience to that form of doctrine under which you were placed.
18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Set free from the control of Sin, you became servants to Righteousness.
19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
I can but speak as men do because of the weakness of your earthly nature. Once you offered every part of your bodies to the service of impurity, and of wickedness, which leads to further wickedness. Now, in the same way, offer them to the service of Righteousness, which leads to holiness.
20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
While you were still servants of Sin, you were free as regards Righteousness.
21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things [is] death.
But what were the fruits that you reaped from those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of such things is Death.
22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. (aiōnios g166)
But now that you have been set free from the control of Sin, and have become servants to God, the fruit that you reap is an ever-increasing holiness, and the end Immortal Life. (aiōnios g166)
