Romans 6
1 What shall we saye then? Shall we continue in synne that there maye be aboundaunce of grace?
What are we to say, then? Are we to continue to sin, in order that God’s loving-kindness may be multiplied?
2 God forbyd. How shall we that are deed as touchynge synne live eny lenger therin?
Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, and how can we go on living in it?
3 Remember ye not that all we which are baptysed in the name of Iesu Christ are baptysed to dye with him?
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 We are buryed with him by baptim for to dye that lykewyse as Christ was raysed vp from deeth by the glorye of the father: eve so we also shuld walke in a newe lyfe.
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 yf we be graft in deeth lyke vnto him: even so must we be in the resurreccio.
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 This we must remeber that oure olde man is crucified with him also that the body of synne myght vtterly be destroyed that hence forth we shuld not be servauntes of synne.
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 deed ys iustified from synne.
For the man who has so died has been pronounced righteous and released from Sin.
8 Wherfore yf we be deed with Christ we beleve that we shall live with him:
And our belief is, that, as we have shared Christ’s Death, we shall also share his Life.
9 remembringe that Christ once raysed fro deeth dyeth no more. Deeth hath no moare power 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 as touchynge that he dyed he dyed concernynge synne once. And as touchinge that he liveth he liveth vnto 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 Lykewyse ymagen ye also that ye are deed concernynge synne: but are alive vnto God thorow Iesus Christ oure Lorde.
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 synne raygne therfore in youre mortall bodyes that ye shuld thervnto obey in the lustes of it.
Therefore do not let Sin reign in your mortal bodies and compel you to obey its cravings.
13 Nether geve ye youre members as instrumentes of vnrightewesnes vnto synne: but geve youre selves vnto God as they that are alive from deeth. And geve youre membres as iustrumetes of rightewesnes vnto 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 Let not synne have power over you. For ye are not vnder the lawe but vnder 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 synne because we are not vnder the lawe: but vnder grace? God forbyd.
What follows, then? Are we to sin because we are living under the reign of Love and not of Law? Heaven forbid!
16 Remember ye not how yt to whom soever ye comit youre selves as servautes to obey his servauntes ye are to whom ye obey: whether it be of synne vnto deeth or of obedience vnto rightewesnes?
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 God be thanked yt though ye were once the servauntes of synne ye have yet obeyed with herte vnto the forme of doctryne wher vnto ye were delyvered.
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 Ye are then made fre from synne and are be come the servauntes of rightewesnes.
Set free from the control of Sin, you became servants to Righteousness.
19 I will speake grossly because of the infirmitie of youre flesshe. As ye have geve youre membres servauntes to vnclennes and to iniquitie fro iniquitie vnto iniquitie: even so nowe geve youre membres servantes vnto rightewesnes yt ye maye be sanctified.
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 servauntes of synne ye were not vnder rightewesnes.
While you were still servants of Sin, you were free as regards Righteousness.
21 What frute had ye then in tho thinges wher of ye are now ashamed. For the ende of tho thynges is deeth.
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 are ye delivered from synne and made the servauntes of God and have youre frute that ye shuld be sanctifyed and the ende everlastinge lyfe. (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)
