Romans 6
Dead to Sin, Alive to God
6aWhat shall we say then? Are we to bcontinue in sin so that grace may increase? 2aMay it never be! How shall we who bdied to sin still live in it? 3Or do you not know that all of us who were abaptized into bChrist Jesus were baptized into His death? 4Therefore we were aburied with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was braised from the dead through the cglory of the Father, so we too might walk in dnewness of life. 5For aif we have become 1united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be 2in the likeness of His resurrection, 6knowing this, that our aold man was bcrucified with Him, in order that our cbody of sin might be 1done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7for ahe who has died has been 1justified from sin.
8Now aif we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9knowing that Christ, having been araised from the dead, 1is never to die again; bdeath no longer is master over Him. 10For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all, but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11Even so consider yourselves to be adead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12Therefore do not let sin areign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, 13and do not go on apresenting your members to sin as 1instruments of unrighteousness, but bpresent yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as 2instruments of righteousness to God. 14For asin shall not bbe master over you, for cyou are not under law but dunder grace.
Slaves of Righteousness
15What then? aShall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? bMay it never be! 16Do you not aknow that when you go on presenting yourselves to someone as bslaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of csin 1leading to death, or of obedience 2leading to righteousness? 17But athanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that bpattern of teaching to which you were cgiven over, 18and having been afreed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19aI am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just bas you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, 1leading to further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, 2leading to sanctification.
20For awhen you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21Therefore what 1,abenefit were you then having 2from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is bdeath. 22But now having been afreed from sin and benslaved to God, you have your 1,cbenefit, 2leading to sanctification, and dthe end, eternal life. 23For the wages of asin is death, but the gracious gift of God is beternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.