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Romans 6

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1 So what are we going to say? Should we continue sinning so grace will multiply?
1 What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound?
2 Absolutely not! All of us died to sin. How can we still live in it?
2 By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?
3 Or don't you know that all who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore, we were buried together with him through baptism into his death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too can walk in newness of life.
4 Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
5 If we were united together in a death like his, we will also be united together in a resurrection like his.
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
6 This is what we know: the person that we used to be was crucified with him in order to get rid of the corpse that had been controlled by sin. That way we wouldn't be slaves to sin anymore,
6 We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.
7 because a person who has died has been freed from sin's power.
7 For whoever has died is freed from sin.
8 But if we died with Christ, we have faith that we will also live with him.
8 But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
9 We know that Christ has been raised from the dead and he will never die again. Death no longer has power over him.
9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
10 He died to sin once and for all with his death, but he lives for God with his life.
10 The death he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
11 In the same way, you also should consider yourselves dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus.
11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 So then, don't let sin rule your body, so that you do what it wants.
12 Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.
13 Don't offer parts of your body to sin, to be used as weapons to do wrong. Instead, present yourselves to God as people who have been brought back to life from the dead, and offer all the parts of your body to God to be used as weapons to do right.
13 No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
14 Sin will have no power over you, because you aren't under Law but under grace.
14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
15 So what? Should we sin because we aren't under Law but under grace? Absolutely not!
15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
16 Don't you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, that you are slaves of the one whom you obey? That's true whether you serve as slaves of sin, which leads to death, or as slaves of the kind of obedience that leads to righteousness.
16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
17 But thank God that although you used to be slaves of sin, you gave wholehearted obedience to the teaching that was handed down to you, which provides a pattern.
17 But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted,
18 Now that you have been set free from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness.
18 and that you, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
19 (I'm speaking with ordinary metaphors because of your limitations.) Once, you offered the parts of your body to be used as slaves to impurity and to lawless behavior that leads to still more lawless behavior. Now, you should present the parts of your body as slaves to righteousness, which makes your lives holy.
19 I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.
20 When you were slaves of sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.
20 When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21 What consequences did you get from doing things that you are now ashamed of? The outcome of those things is death.
21 So what advantage did you then get from the things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death.
22 But now that you have been set free from sin and become slaves to God, you have the consequence of a holy life, and the outcome is eternal life.
22 But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life.
23 The wages that sin pays are death, but God's gift is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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