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Romans 6

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1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
1 So what do we do? Keep on sinning so God can keep on forgiving?
2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
2 I should hope not! If we've left the country where sin is sovereign, how can we still live in our old house there?
3 Or don't you know that all we who were immersed into Messiah Yeshua were immersed into his death?
3 Or didn't you realize we packed up and left there for good? That is what happened in baptism. When we went under the water, we left the old country of sin behind; when we came up out of the water, we entered into the new country of grace - a new life in a new land!
4 We were buried therefore with him through immersion to death, that just like Messiah was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
4 When we are lowered into the water, it is like the burial of Jesus; when we are raised up out of the water, it is like the resurrection of Jesus.
5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
5 Each of us is raised into a light-filled world by our Father so that we can see where we're going in our new grace-sovereign country.
6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
6 Could it be any clearer? Our old way of life was nailed to the Cross with Christ, a decisive end to that sin-miserable life - no longer at sin's every beck and call! What we believe is this:
7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
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8 But if we died with Messiah, we believe that we will also live with him;
8 If we get included in Christ's sin-conquering death, we also get included in his life-saving resurrection.
9 knowing that Messiah, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!
9 We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead it was a signal of the end of death-as-the-end. Never again will death have the last word.
10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
10 When Jesus died, he took sin down with him, but alive he brings God down to us.
11 Thus also consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
11 From now on, think of it this way: Sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you; God speaks your mother tongue, and you hang on every word. You are dead to sin and alive to God. That's what Jesus did.
12 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
12 That means you must not give sin a vote in the way you conduct your lives. Don't give it the time of day.
13 Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
13 Don't even run little errands that are connected with that old way of life. Throw yourselves wholeheartedly and full-time - remember, you've been raised from the dead! - into God's way of doing things.
14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
14 Sin can't tell you how to live. After all, you're not living under that old tyranny any longer. You're living in the freedom of God.
15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
15 So, since we're out from under the old tyranny, does that mean we can live any old way we want? Since we're free in the freedom of God, can we do anything that comes to mind?
16 Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
16 Hardly. You know well enough from your own experience that there are some acts of so-called freedom that destroy freedom. Offer yourselves to sin, for instance, and it's your last free act. But offer yourselves to the ways of God and the freedom never quits. All your lives you've let sin tell you what to do.
17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were servants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.
17 But thank God you've started listening to a new master,
18 Being made free from sin, you became servants of righteousness.
18 one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom!
19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
19 I'm using this freedom language because it's easy to picture. You can readily recall, can't you, how at one time the more you did just what you felt like doing - not caring about others, not caring about God - the worse your life became and the less freedom you had? And how much different is it now as you live in God's freedom, your lives healed and expansive in holiness?
20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
20 As long as you did what you felt like doing, ignoring God, you didn't have to bother with right thinking or right living, or right anything for that matter.
21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
21 But do you call that a free life? What did you get out of it? Nothing you're proud of now. Where did it get you? A dead end.
22 But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
22 But now that you've found you don't have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God telling you, what a surprise! A whole, healed, put-together life right now, with more and more of life on the way!
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Messiah Yeshua our Lord.
23 Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God's gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master.
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Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.