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Romans 6

The Message Bible MSG

1 So what do we do? Keep on sinning so God can keep on forgiving?

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 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 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 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 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:

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8 If we get included in Christ's sin-conquering death, we also get included in his life-saving resurrection.

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 When Jesus died, he took sin down with him, but alive he brings God down to us.

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 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 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 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 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 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 thank God you've started listening to a new master,

18 one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom!

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 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 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 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 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.

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 quid ergo dicemus permanebimus in peccato ut gratia abundet

2 absit qui enim mortui sumus peccato quomodo adhuc vivemus in illo

3 an ignoratis quia quicumque baptizati sumus in Christo Iesu in morte ipsius baptizati sumus

4 consepulti enim sumus cum illo per baptismum in mortem ut quomodo surrexit Christus a mortuis per gloriam Patris ita et nos in novitate vitae ambulemus

5 si enim conplantati facti sumus similitudini mortis eius simul et resurrectionis erimus

6 hoc scientes quia vetus homo noster simul crucifixus est ut destruatur corpus peccati ut ultra non serviamus peccato

7 qui enim mortuus est iustificatus est a peccato

8 si autem mortui sumus cum Christo credimus quia simul etiam vivemus cum Christo

9 scientes quod Christus surgens ex mortuis iam non moritur mors illi ultra non dominabitur

10 quod enim mortuus est peccato mortuus est semel quod autem vivit vivit Deo

11 ita et vos existimate vos mortuos quidem esse peccato viventes autem Deo in Christo Iesu

12 non ergo regnet peccatum in vestro mortali corpore ut oboediatis concupiscentiis eius

13 sed neque exhibeatis membra vestra arma iniquitatis peccato sed exhibete vos Deo tamquam ex mortuis viventes et membra vestra arma iustitiae Deo

14 peccatum enim vobis non dominabitur non enim sub lege estis sed sub gratia

15 quid ergo peccavimus quoniam non sumus sub lege sed sub gratia absit

16 nescitis quoniam cui exhibetis vos servos ad oboediendum servi estis eius cui oboeditis sive peccati sive oboeditionis ad iustitiam

17 gratias autem Deo quod fuistis servi peccati oboedistis autem ex corde in eam formam doctrinae in qua traditi estis

18 liberati autem a peccato servi facti estis iustitiae

19 humanum dico propter infirmitatem carnis vestrae sicut enim exhibuistis membra vestra servire inmunditiae et iniquitati ad iniquitatem ita nunc exhibete membra vestra servire iustitiae in sanctificationem

20 cum enim servi essetis peccati liberi fuistis iustitiae

21 quem ergo fructum habuistis tunc in quibus nunc erubescitis nam finis illorum mors est

22 nunc vero liberati a peccato servi autem facti Deo habetis fructum vestrum in sanctificationem finem vero vitam aeternam

23 stipendia enim peccati mors gratia autem Dei vita aeterna in Christo Iesu Domino nostro