Parallel Bible results for "Romans 6"

Romans 6

WBT

NIV

1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
2 By no means: how shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death?
3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
4 We 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 live a new life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of [his] resurrection:
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that the body of sin may be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
8 Now if we are dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
9 Knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
10 For in that he died, he died to sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth to God.
10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts of it.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
13 Neither yield ye your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness to sin: but yield yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness to God:
13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
14 For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? By no means.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants in obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin; but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance.
18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
19 I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity, to ([work]) iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness, to ([work]) holiness.
19 I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.
20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.
21 What fruit had ye then in those things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things [is] death.
21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!
22 But now being made free from sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.
22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
23 For the wages of sin [is] death: but the gift of God [is] eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The Webster Bible is in the public domain.
Scripture quoted by permission.  Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®.  NIV®.  Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica.  All rights reserved worldwide.