Romans 6 - LSB Bible Online

Romans 6

Dead to Sin, Alive to God

^aWhat shall we say then? Are we to ^bcontinue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 ^aMay it never be! How shall we who ^bdied to sin still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that all of us who were ^abaptized into ^bChrist Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore 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. 5 For ^aif we have become ¹united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be ²in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing 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; 7 for ^ahe who has died has been ¹justified from sin.
8 Now ^aif we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been ^araised from the dead, ¹is never to die again; ^bdeath no longer is master 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 Even so consider yourselves to be ^adead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore do not let sin ^areign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, 13 and 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 ¹instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For ^asin shall not ^bbe master over you, for ^cyou are not under law but ^dunder grace.

Slaves of Righteousness

15 What then? ^aShall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? ^bMay it never be! 16 Do 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? 17 But ^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, 18 and having been ^afreed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19 ^aI 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.
20 For ^awhen you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 Therefore what ¹^abenefit were you then having ²from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is ^bdeath. 22 But now having been ^afreed from sin and ^benslaved to God, you have your ¹^cbenefit, ²leading to sanctification, and ^dthe end, eternal life. 23 For the wages of ^asin is death, but the gracious gift of God is ^beternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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