Romans 6
1 What shall we say then? Shall 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 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
No indeed; how shall we who have died to sin still go on living in it any longer?
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into 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 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.
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 have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] 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 is crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not 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 is dead is freed from sin.
for he who is dead is set free from sin.
8 Now if we be dead 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 being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more; death has no more dominion over him.
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, he died unto sin once for all; but the life that he lives he is living unto God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Therefore let not sin rule as king in your mortal body, compelling you to obey its lusts.
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 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 the 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? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
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 servants to obey, his servants ye are to 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 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.
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 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of 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 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 the servants 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 had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things [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 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 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)
