Romans 6

Buried with Him, and Raised to Walk in Newness of Life

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We Who Died to Sin

6:1What, then, shall we say? Should we remain in sin so that grace may increase?

6:2May it never be! We who died to sin, how will we still live in it?

6:3Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

6:4Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the Father’s glory, so we also might walk in newness of life.

6:5For if we have become united with the likeness of His death, we will also be united with that of His resurrection,

6:6knowing this, that our old person was crucified with Him, so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin;

6:7for the one who died has been justified from sin.

6:8And if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him,

6:9knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, no longer dies; death no longer rules over Him.

6:10For the death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.

6:11So also reckon yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Instruments of Righteousness

6:12Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires;

6:13neither present your members to sin as weapons of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members to God as weapons of righteousness.

6:14For sin will not rule over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.

Slaves of Righteousness

6:15What, then? Should we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

6:16Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

6:17But thanks be to God that, though you were slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were handed over;

6:18and, having been set free from sin, you were enslaved to righteousness.

The Wages of Sin and the Gift of God

6:19I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness resulting in lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness resulting in sanctification.

6:20For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness.

6:21What fruit, then, did you have at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

6:22But now, having been set free from sin and enslaved to God, you have your fruit resulting in sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

6:23For sin’s wages are death, but God’s gift is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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