The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans

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- Chapter 6 -

(2 Corinthians 4:7–18)

What then will we say? Should we continue in sin so that grace may abound?

May it never be. We who died to sin, how can we still live in it?

Do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

We were buried, then, with him through baptism into death. This happened in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of life.

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be united with his resurrection.

We know this, that our old man was crucified with him, in order that the body of sin might be destroyed. This happened so that we should no longer be enslaved to sin.

He who has died is declared righteous in respect to sin.

But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live together with him.

We know that Christ has been raised from the dead, and that he is no longer dead. Death no longer rules over him.

For in regard to the death that he died to sin, he died once for all. However, the life that he lives, he lives it for God.

In the same way, you also must consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore, do not let sin rule in your mortal body in order that you may obey its lusts.

Do not present the parts of your body to sin, to be tools used for unrighteousness. But present yourselves to God, as dead who are now living. And present the parts of your body to God as tools to be used for righteousness.

Do not allow sin to rule over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

The Wages of Sin

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be.

Do you not know that the one to whom you present yourselves as servants is the one to which you are obedient, the one you must obey? This is true whether you are servants to sin which leads to death, or servants to obedience which leads to righteousness.

But thanks be to God! For you were servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching that you were given.

You have been made free from sin, and you have been made servants of righteousness.

I speak like a man because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your body parts as slaves to uncleanness and to evil, in the same way now, present your body parts as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.

At that time, what fruit then did you have of the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death.

But now that you have been made free from sin and are enslaved to God, you have your fruit for sanctification. The result is eternal life.

For the wages of sin are death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

(2 Corinthians 4:7–18)

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

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

For he who has died has been freed from sin.

But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!

For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.

The Wages of Sin

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.