Romans 6

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¹What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? ✦ ²Far from it! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? ✦ ³Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? ✦ ⁴Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life. ✦ ⁵For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, ✦ ⁶knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; ✦ ⁷for the one who has died is freed from sin. ✦ ⁸Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, ✦ ⁹knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him. ✦ ¹⁰For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all time; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. ✦ ¹¹So you too, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. ✦ ¹²Therefore sin is not to reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, ✦ ¹³and do not go on presenting the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your body’s parts as instruments of righteousness for God. ✦ ¹⁴For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under the Law but under grace. ✦ ¹⁵What then? Are we to sin because we are not under the Law but under grace? Far from it! ✦ ¹⁶Do you not know that the one to whom you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of that same one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness? ✦ ¹⁷But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were entrusted, ✦ ¹⁸and after being freed from sin, you became slaves to righteousness. ✦ ¹⁹I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your body’s parts as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification. ✦ ²⁰For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in relation to righteousness. ✦ ²¹Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. ✦ ²²But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. ✦ ²³For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Rom 6 ·42 Rom 8 ·15 Rom 7 ·14 Col 3 ·12 1 Cor 6 ·12 1 Pet 4 ·11 Rom 5 ·9 1 Pet 2 ·8

Christ at the center

Paul unfolds the gospel in full: Christ our righteousness received by faith, the second Adam in whom many are made righteous, in whose death and resurrection we are buried and raised.

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