Romans 6
1 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?
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?
Absolutely not. We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
3 And do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
Or do you not know that all we who were baptized into Meshikha Yeshua were baptized into his death?
4 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.
We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Meshikha was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
5 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.
For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
6 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;
knowing this, that our old self 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.
7 for he who has paid the penalty of death stands absolved from his sin.
For he who has died has been freed from sin.
8 But, seeing that we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him;
But if we died with Meshikha, we believe that we will also live with him;
9 because we know that Christ, having come back to life, is no longer liable to die.
knowing that Meshikha, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him.
10 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.
For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
11 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.
In the same way, consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Meshikha Yeshua.
12 Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies, causing you to be in subjection to their cravings;
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
13 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.
Neither 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.
14 For Sin shall not be lord over you, since you are subjects not of Law, but of grace.
For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
15 Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? Absolutely not.
16 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)?
Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, whether of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
17 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.
But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were entrusted.
18 You were set free from the tyranny of Sin, and became the bondservants of Righteousness--
Being made free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
19 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.
I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
20 For when you were the bondservants of sin, you were under no sort of subjection to Righteousness.
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21 At that time, then, what benefit did you get from conduct which you now regard with shame? Why, such things finally result in death.
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.
22 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)
But now, being made free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of everlasting life. (aiōnios g166)
