Romans chapter 6

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Dead to sin, alive to God

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

2 May it never be. How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

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

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

5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of his death, we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection,

6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer serve sin.

7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.

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

9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him.

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

11 Likewise you also, count yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.

12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

13 And do not 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.

14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law but under grace.

Slaves of righteousness

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

16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.

18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness, and to iniquity leading to iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.

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

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

22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.

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

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Base text: Textus Receptus. A literal translation (KJV style) adapted to modern English, without comparison to Nestle-Aland, UBS, or Westcott-Hort.