RKJNT - Romans - 6

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

6:2  By no means. How shall we, who are dead to sin, live in it any longer?

6:3  Do you not know, that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

6:4  Therefore, we were buried with him by baptism into death: so that as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also might walk in newness of life.

6:5  For if we have been united with him by sharing a death like his, so shall we also share a resurrection like his:

6:6  Knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should no longer be enslaved by sin.

6:7  For he who has died is freed from sin.

6:8  Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

6:9  Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will never die again: death no longer has power over him.

6:10  For in his death, he died to sin once for all: but in his life, he lives to God.

6:11  In the same way, consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

6:12  Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey its lusts.

6:13  Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness: but yield yourselves to God, as those who are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

6:14  For sin shall not be your master: for you 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? By no means.

6:16  Do you not know that if you yield yourselves as slaves to obey someone, you are slaves of the one you obey; whether of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

6:17  But thanks be to God, that you who were once the slaves of sin, have obeyed from the heart that standard of teaching which was entrusted to you.

6:18  Being then set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness.

6:19  I speak after the manner of men, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members as slaves to uncleanness and to ever increasing iniquity; so now yield your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to holiness.

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

6:21  But what benefit did you get from those things of which you are now ashamed? for the result of those things is death.

6:22  But now, having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you gain the benefit that leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.

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