Romans 6

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Dead to Sin, Alive to God

¹What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?

¹What then will we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may abound?

²Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?

²Never may it be! We who died to sin, how shall we still live in it?

³Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

³Or are you ignorant that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

⁴We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.

⁴We were buried, therefore, with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised out from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.

⁵For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection.

⁵For if we have become united in the likeness of His death, yet also we will be of the resurrection,

⁶We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

⁶knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, so that the body of sin might be nullified, for us no longer to be slaves to sin.

⁷For anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

⁷For the one having died has been justified from sin.

⁸Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.

⁸Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him,

⁹For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has dominion over Him.

⁹knowing that Christ, having been raised out from the dead, dies no more; death no longer rules over Him.

¹⁰The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.

¹⁰For that which He died, He died to sin once for all; but that which He lives, He lives to God.

¹¹So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

¹¹So also you, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

¹²Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

¹²Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, in order to obey its desires.

¹³Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.

¹³Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as living out from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

¹⁴For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

¹⁴For sin will not rule over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.

The Wages of Sin

¹⁵What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!

¹⁵What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Never may it be!

¹⁶Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?

¹⁶Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to the one whom you obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

¹⁷But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.

¹⁷But thanks be to God that you used to be slaves of sin, but you obeyed from the heart the form of teaching to which you were delivered up.

¹⁸You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

¹⁸Now having been set free from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.

¹⁹I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

¹⁹I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness unto sanctification.

²⁰For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.

²⁰For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.

²¹What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.

²¹What fruit, therefore, were you having then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

²²But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

²²But now, having been set free from sin and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

²³For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.