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 God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?
No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?
3 Or are ye ignorant that all we 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 like 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] by the likeness of his death, we shall be also [by the likeness] 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, that so we should 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 that hath died is justified 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 shall 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 dieth no more; death no more hath 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 unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto 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 Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.
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 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:
Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies, causing you to be in subjection to their cravings;
13 neither present your members unto sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto 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 shall not have dominion over you: for ye 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? God forbid.
Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves [as] servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto 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 ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye 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 and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.
You were set free from the tyranny of Sin, and became the bondservants of Righteousness--
19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members [as] servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members [as] servants to righteousness unto 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 ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.
For when you were the bondservants of sin, you were under no sort of subjection to Righteousness.
21 What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye 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 become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end 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)
