Romans Chapter 6
1 What
shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we
who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or
do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were
baptized into His death? 4 Therefore
we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was
raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in
newness of life. 5 For
if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also
shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man
was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with,
that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been
freed from sin. 8 Now
if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having
been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion 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 Likewise
you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in
Christ Jesus our Lord. 12 Therefore
do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
13 And
do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin,
but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as
instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For
sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under
grace. 15 What
then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
16 Do
you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that
one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of
obedience leading to righteousness? 17 But God be thanked that though
you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to
which you were delivered. 18 And
having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms because
of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as
slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more
lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of
righteousness for holiness. 20 For
when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 What fruit did you have then
in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is
death. 22 But
now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have
your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is
death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.