Romans:6

---

Seeker Overlay ON

* What shall we say then ? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may abound ? * By no means ! We died to sin-How shall we live any longer in it ? * Or do you not know that as many [of us ] as were baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death ? * Therefore we were 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 also should walk in newness of life . * For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death , certainly we shall also be [in the likeness ] of [His ] resurrection ; * knowing this , that our old man was crucified [with Him ], so that the body of sin may be done away with , [that ] we should no longer serve sin . * For he who has died has been justified from sin . * But if we died with Christ , we believe that we also shall live together with Him , * knowing that Christ , having been raised from the dead , no longer dies . Death is no longer master [over ] Him . * For what [death ] He died , He died to sin once for all ; but what [life ] He lives , He lives to God . * Likewise you also , consider yourselves to be dead indeed to sin , but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord . * Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body , that you should obey it in its lusts , * nor present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin , but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead , and your members as instruments of righteousness to God . * For sin shall not be master over you , for you are not under law but under grace . * What then ? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace ? By no means ! * Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as obedient slaves , you are slaves to whom you obey , whether of sin [resulting ] in death , or of obedience [resulting ] in righteousness ? * But thanks be to God , that though you used to be slaves of sin , yet you obeyed from [your ] heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered . * And having been freed from sin , you became enslaved to righteousness . * I speak in human terms on account of the weakness of your flesh . For just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness , and to lawlessness [resulting ] in [more ] lawlessness , so now present your members as slaves to righteousness [resulting ] in sanctification . * For when you were slaves of sin , you were free in regard to righteousness . * So what fruit did you have then of which [things ] you are now ashamed ? For the end of those things is death . * But now having been freed from sin , and having become enslaved to God , you have your fruit [resulting ] in sanctification , and the end , eternal life . * For the wages of sin [is ] death , but the gift of God [is ] eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord .

---