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 ▼▼Lit May it never happen!
dFar from it! How shall we who edied to sin still live in it? 3Or do you not know that all of us who have been fbaptized into gChrist Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4Therefore we have been hburied with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was iraised from the dead through the jglory of the Father, so we too may walk in knewness of life. 5For lif 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, 6knowing this, that our oold ▼▼Lit person (Gr anthropos)
self was qcrucified with Him, in order that our rbody of sin might be ▼▼Or made powerless
done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7for tthe one who has died is ▼▼Or acquitted
freed from sin. 8 Now vif we have died with Christ, we believe that wwe shall also live with Him, 9knowing that Christ, having been xraised from the dead, ▼▼Lit no longer dies
is never to die again; zdeath no longer is master over Him. 10For ▼▼Lit that which He died
the death that He died, He died to sin once for all time; but ▼▼Lit that which He lives
the life that He lives, He lives to ▼▼I.e., the Father
God. 11So you too, consider yourselves to be addead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore sin is not to aereign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, 13and do not go on afpresenting ▼▼Lit your parts to sin
the parts of your body to sin as ▼▼Or weapons
instruments of unrighteousness; but aipresent yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and ▼▼Lit your parts as
your body’s parts as ▼▼Or weapons
instruments of righteousness for God. 14For alsin shall not ambe master over you, for anyou are not under ▼▼Or law
the Law but apunder grace. 15 What then? aqAre we to sin because we are not under ▼▼Or law
the Law but under grace? ▼▼Lit May it never happen!
atFar from it! 16Do you not auknow that the one to whom you present yourselves as avslaves for obedience, you are slaves of that same one whom you obey, either of awsin ▼▼Lit to death
resulting in death, or of obedience ▼▼Lit to righteousness
resulting in righteousness? 17But azthanks 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 ▼▼Or pattern
bcform of teaching to which you were entrusted, 18and after being bdfreed from sin, you became slaves to righteousness. 19 beI am speaking ▼▼I.e., reluctantly using slavery as an analogy
in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just bgas you presented ▼▼Lit your parts as
the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, ▼▼Lit to lawlessness
resulting in further lawlessness, so now present ▼▼Lit your parts as
your body’s parts as slaves to righteousness, ▼▼Lit to sanctification
resulting in sanctification. 20 For blwhen you were slaves of sin, you were free in relation to righteousness. 21Therefore what ▼▼Lit fruit
bnbenefit were you then ▼▼Lit having
deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is bpdeath. 22But now having been bqfreed from sin and brenslaved to God, you ▼▼Lit have
derive your ▼▼Lit fruit
bubenefit, ▼▼Lit to sanctification
resulting in sanctification, and bwthe outcome, eternal life. 23For the wages of bxsin is death, but the gracious gift of God is byeternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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