Chapter 6

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

By no means! For how shall we who are dead to sin still live in it?

Do you not know that all we who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death?

For we were buried with him by means of Baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ has arisen from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life.

For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be so in the likeness of his resurrection also.

For we know that our old self has been crucified with him, in order that the body of sin may be destroyed, that we may no longer be slaves to sin;

for he who is dead is acquitted of sin.

But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live together with Christ;

for we know that Christ, having risen from the dead, dies now no more, death shall no longer have dominion over him.

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

Thus do you consider yourselves also as dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. The Reign of Sin

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

And do not yield your members to sin as weapons of iniquity, but present yourselves to God as those who have come to life from the dead and your members as weapons of justice for God;

for sin shall not have dominion over you, since you are not under the Law but under grace. Slavery to Sin

What then? Are we to sin because we are not under the Law but under grace? By no means!

Do you not know that to whom you offer yourselves as slaves for obedience, to him whom you obey you are the slaves, whether to sin unto death or to obedience unto justice?

But thanks be to God that you who were the slaves of sin have now been delivered,

and having been set free from sin, you have become the slaves of justice.

I speak in a human way because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you yielded your members as slaves of uncleanness and iniquity unto iniquity, so now yield your members as slaves of justice unto sanctification.

For when you were the slaves of sin, you were free as regards justice.

But what fruit had you then from those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of these things is death.

But now set free from sin and become slaves to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and as your end, life everlasting.

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