Rom 6 | NASB1995 | STEP | What shall we say then ? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase ?

Romans 6

Believers Are Dead to Sin, Alive to God

1 ^aWhat shall we say then? Are we to ^bcontinue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 ^cMay it never be! How shall we who ^ddied to sin still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been ^ebaptized into ^fChrist Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been ^gburied with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was ^hraised from the dead through the ⁱglory of the Father, so we too might walk in ^jnewness of life. 5 For ^kif we have become ^{▼▼ Or united with the likeness}united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be ^{▼▼ Or with} in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our ⁿold ^{▼▼ Gr anthropos}self was ^pcrucified with Him, in order that our ^qbody of sin might be ^{▼▼ Or made powerless}done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for ^she who has died is ^{▼▼ Or acquitted}freed from sin.

8 Now ^uif we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been ^vraised from the dead, ^{▼▼ Lit no longer dies}is never to die again; ^xdeath no longer is master over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Even so consider yourselves to be ^ydead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

12 Therefore do not let sin ^zreign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, 13 and do not go on ^aapresenting ^{▼▼ Lit your members to sin}the members of your body to sin as ^{▼▼ Or weapons}instruments of unrighteousness; but ^adpresent yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as ^{▼▼ Or weapons}instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For ^afsin shall not ^agbe master over you, for ^ahyou are not under law but ^aiunder grace.

15 What then? ^ajShall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? ^akMay it never be! 16 Do you not ^alknow that when you present yourselves to someone as ^amslaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of ^ansin ^{▼▼ Lit to death}resulting in death, or of obedience ^{▼▼ Lit to righteousness}resulting in righteousness? 17 But ^aqthanks be to God that ^{▼▼ Lit you were slaves...but you became}though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that ^asform of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and having been ^atfreed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19 ^auI am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just ^avas you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, ^{▼▼ Lit to lawlessness}resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, ^{▼▼ Lit to sanctification}resulting in sanctification.

20 For ^aywhen you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 Therefore what ^{▼▼ Lit fruit
,} ^babenefit were you then ^{▼▼ Lit having}deriving ^{▼▼ Lit in}from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is ^bddeath. 22 But now having been ^befreed from sin and ^bfenslaved to God, you ^{▼▼ Lit have}derive your ^{▼▼ Lit fruit
,} ^bibenefit, ^{▼▼ Lit to sanctification}resulting in sanctification, and ^bkthe outcome, eternal life. 23 For the wages of ^blsin is death, but the free gift of God is ^bmeternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.