Romans 6 - Amplified Bible(AMP)

Believers Are Dead to Sin, Alive to God

1What shall we say? Should we continue in sin and practice sin as a habit so that grace may increase and overflow?

2Certainly not! How can we, the very ones who died to sin, continue to live in it any longer?

3Or are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

4We have therefore been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory and power of the Father, we too might walk habitually in newness of life.

5For if we have become one with Him in the likeness of His death, we will also certainly be in the likeness of His resurrection.

6We know that our old self was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin.

7For the person who has died has been freed from sin.

8Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him,

9because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him.

10For the death that He died, He died to sin once and for all; and the life that He lives, He lives to God.

11Even so, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts and passions.

13Do not go on offering members of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness. But offer yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

14For sin will no longer be a master over you, since you are not under Law, but under grace.

15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under Law, but under grace? Certainly not!

16Do you not know that when you continually offer yourselves to someone to do his will, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness (right standing with God)?

17But thank God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient with all your heart to the standard of teaching in which you were instructed and to which you were committed.

18And having been set free from sin, you have become the slaves of righteousness.

19I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you presented your bodily members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, leading to further lawlessness, so now offer your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification.

20When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

21So what benefit did you get at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death!

22But now since you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, you have your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome is eternal life.

23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.