Romans 6
1 What shall we say, then? Should we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
2 Absolutely not! We who died to sin—how can we still live in it?
3 Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 So 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, we too might walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection.
6 We know this: our old self was crucified with him, so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with and we would no longer be slaves to sin.
7 For whoever has died has been set free from sin.
8 And if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
9 We know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer rules over him.
10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
11 In the same way, you too: consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 So do not let sin reign in your mortal body, causing you to obey its desires.
13 Do not offer your body parts to sin as weapons of wrongdoing; instead, offer yourselves to God as those brought from death to life, and offer your body parts to God as weapons of righteousness.
14 For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the Law but under grace.
15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under the Law but under grace? Absolutely not!
16 Do you not know that when you offer yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one you obey—either of sin, leading to death, or of obedience, leading to righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God that, though you were slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were handed over.
18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered your body parts as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, leading to more lawlessness, so now offer your body parts as slaves to righteousness, leading to holiness.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in relation to righteousness.
21 What fruit did you have then? Things you are now ashamed of, for their outcome is death.
22 But now, having been set free from sin and made slaves of God, you have your fruit leading to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but God's gift is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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