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6:1 Therefore what will we say? Are we remaining in sin, in order that grace {Or: favor; and so elsewhere in the letters to the congregations} may increase?

6:2 Let it not happen! We who died to sin, how will we still be living in it?

6:3 Or are you* ignorant that as many as were immersed* into Christ Jesus were immersed* into his death?

6:4 Therefore we were buried together with him through the immersion* into his death; in order that just-like Christ was raised up from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we might also walk in newness of life.

6:5 For* if we have become unified together with him in the likeness of his death, but also, we will be unified with him in the likeness of his resurrection.

6:6 Knowing this, that our old man was crucified together with him, in order that the body of sin might be done-away, that we are to be enslaved to sin no longer;

6:7 for* he who died has been made righteous away from sin.

6:8 But if we died together with Christ, we believe that we will also be living together with him;

6:9 knowing that Christ having been raised up from the dead dies no more; death has no more lordship over him.

6:10 For* that death that he died to sin, he died to sin once for all, but that life that he lives, he is living to God.

6:11 So you* also, count* yourselves to be indeed dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.



6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your* mortal body, *that* you* might obey* it in its lusts;

6:13 nor present* your* members as weapons of unrighteousness to sin, but present* yourselves to God, as living from the dead and your* members as weapons of righteousness to God.

6:14 For* sin will not have lordship over you*; for* you* are not under the law, but under grace.

6:15 Therefore what? Will we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? Let it not happen!

6:16 Do you* not know, that to whom you* present yourselves as bondservants to obedience, you* are the bondservants to whom you* obey*; either of sin to death or of obedience to righteousness?

6:17 But gratitude to God, that, though you* were bondservants of sin, you* obeyed* from the heart the pattern {Or: example; 6:3-6} of teaching to which you* were given;

6:18 and having been made free from sin, you* were enslaved to righteousness.



6:19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your* flesh; for* just-like you* presented your* members as bondservants to uncleanness and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present* your* members as bondservants to righteousness leading to holiness.

6:20 For* when you* were bondservants of sin, you* were free in regard to the righteousness.

6:21 Therefore, what fruit were you* having then in the things of which you* are now ashamed? For* the end of those things is death.

6:22 But now, having been made free from sin and having been enslaved to God, you* have your* fruit leading to holiness and the end everlasting life.

6:23 For* the compensations of sin is death, but the gift* of God is everlasting life in Christ Jesus our Lord.