Romans 6
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
To what conclusion, then, shall we come? Are we to persist in sinning in order that the grace extended to us may be the greater?
2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?
3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
And do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Well, then, we by our baptism were buried with Him in death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from among the dead by the Father's glorious power, we also should live an entirely new life.
5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
For since we have become one with Him by sharing in His death, we shall also be one with Him by sharing in His resurrection.
6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
This we know--that our old self was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our sinful nature might be deprived of its power, so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin;
7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
for he who has paid the penalty of death stands absolved from his sin.
8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,
But, seeing that we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him;
9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!
because we know that Christ, having come back to life, is no longer liable to die.
10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
Death has no longer any power over Him. For by the death which He died He became, once for all, dead in relation to sin; but by the life which He now lives He is alive in relation to God.
11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In the same way you also must regard yourselves as dead in relation to sin, but as alive in relation to God, because you are in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies, causing you to be in subjection to their cravings;
13 Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin to use. On the contrary surrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead, and surrender your several faculties to God, to be used as weapons to maintain the right.
14 For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.
For Sin shall not be lord over you, since you are subjects not of Law, but of grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!
16 Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
Do you not know that if you surrender yourselves as bondservants to obey any one, you become the bondservants of him whom you obey, whether the bondservants of Sin (with death as the result) or of Duty (resulting in righteousness)?
17 But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
But thanks be to God that though you were once in thraldom to Sin, you have now yielded a hearty obedience to that system of truth in which you have been instructed.
18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
You were set free from the tyranny of Sin, and became the bondservants of Righteousness--
19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
your human infirmity leads me to employ these familiar figures--and just as you once surrendered your faculties into bondage to Impurity and ever-increasing disregard of Law, so you must now surrender them into bondage to Righteousness ever advancing towards perfect holiness.
20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
For when you were the bondservants of sin, you were under no sort of subjection to Righteousness.
21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
At that time, then, what benefit did you get from conduct which you now regard with shame? Why, such things finally result in death.
22 But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
But now that you have been set free from the tyranny of Sin, and have become the bondservants of God, you have your reward in being made holy, and you have the Life of the Ages as the final result. (aiōnios g166)
