Romans 6
1 What then shall we say? Should we continue in sin that grace may abound?
What then shall we say? Shall we continue to abound in sin, in order that grace may come to abound?
2 Far be the thought. We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?
No indeed; how shall we who have died to sin still go on living in it any longer?
3 Are you ignorant that we, as many as have been baptised unto Christ Jesus, have been baptised unto his death?
For do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Jesus Christ, have been baptized into his death?
4 We have been buried therefore with him by baptism unto death, in order that, even as Christ has been raised up from among [the] dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.
We have been buried together with him, then, through baptism into his death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should live in a newness of life.
5 For if we are become identified with [him] in the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of [his] resurrection;
For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, so we shall also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection.
6 knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin.
For this we know, that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the slave of sin might be destroyed; so that we should no longer be in slavery to sin -
7 For he that has died is justified from sin.
for he who is dead is set free from sin.
8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,
Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
9 knowing that Christ having been raised up from among [the] dead dies no more: death has dominion over him no more.
knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.
10 For in that he has died, he has died to sin once for all; but in that he lives, he lives to God.
For the death that he died, he died unto sin once for all; but the life that he lives he is living unto God.
11 So also ye, reckon yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Even so count yourselves also to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.
Therefore let not sin rule as king in your mortal body, compelling you to obey its lusts.
13 Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among [the] dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God.
Do not continue to present any part of your body to sin to be used as a weapon of unrighteousness. On the contrary, be presenting yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and the various parts of your bodies to be used as weapons of righteousness.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under law but under grace.
For sin shall not lord it over you; for you are not under the rule of law, but under the rule of grace.
15 What then? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought.
What then? Shall we commit an act of sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not.
16 Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Do you not know that when you surrender yourselves as slaves to any one to obey him, you are his slaves whom you obey; whether it be sin, whose end is death, or obedience, whose end is righteousness?
17 But thanks [be] to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye were instructed.
But God be thanked that you who were once the slaves of sin have obeyed from your hearts that type of teaching to which you were appointed;
18 Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.
and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness -
19 I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh. For even as ye have yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness.
I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature - just as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.
20 For when ye were bondmen of sin ye were free from righteousness.
For when you were the slaves of sin, you were under no subjection to righteousness.
21 What fruit therefore had ye then in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of them [is] death.
What harvest-fruit then had you at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22 But now, having got your freedom from sin, and having become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
But now that you have been set free from sin and become slaves of God, the harvest-fruit which you are reaping tends to produce holiness, and it ends is life eternal. (aiōnios g166)
