Haweis - Romans - 6

6:1  THAT then shall we say? Shall we abide in sin, that grace may abound?

6:2  God forbid. We who are dead to sin, how shall we still live therein?

6:3  Do ye not know, that as many as have been baptised into Christ Jesus have been baptised into his death?

6:4  We have been buried therefore with him by baptism into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life.

6:5  For if we have been planted with him in the likeness of his death, so shall we be also of his resurrection:

6:6  knowing this, that our old man hath been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be abolished, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

6:7  For he that is dead is discharged from sin.

6:8  But if we have been dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

6:9  knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death over him hath no more dominion.

6:10  For in that he died, for sin he died once: but in that he liveth, he liveth to God.

6:11  So also do ye account yourselves dead indeed to sin, but living unto God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

6:12  Let not therefore sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the passions thereof.

6:13  Neither present your members as weapons of unrighteousness for sin: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness for God.

6:14  For sin shall not hold dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

6:15  What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

6:16  Do ye not know, that to whomsoever ye present yourselves servants to obey, ye are his servants to whom ye obey; if of sin unto death, or of obedience, unto righteousness?

6:17  But thanks be to God, that though ye were the servants of sin, ye have obeyed from the heart the model of doctrine into which ye were delivered.

6:18  Emancipated then from sin, ye became servants to righteousness.

6:19  I speak humanly, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have presented your members servants to impurity and iniquity for iniquity; so now present your members servants to righteousness for holiness.

6:20  For when ye were the slaves of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

6:21  What fruit therefore had ye then in those things at which ye are now confounded? for the end of those things is death.

6:22  But now being set at liberty from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and at the end life eternal.

6:23  For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is life eternal in Jesus Christ our Lord.