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