Romans 6:1-14
Dead
to Sin, Alive in Christ!
6 “What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that GRACE may increase?
2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we
live in it any longer?
3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into CHRIST JESUS were baptized
into HIS death?
4 We were therefore buried with HIM through baptism into
death in order that, just as CHRIST was raised from the dead through the glory of THE
FATHER, we too may live a NEW
LIFE.
5 For if we have been united with HIM
in a death like HIS, we will certainly also be united with HIM in a RESURRECTION like HIS.
6 For we know that our old
self was crucified with HIM so that the body ruled by sin might
be done away with,
that we should no longer be slaves to sin—
7 because anyone who has died has
been set free from sin.
8 Now if we died with CHRIST, we believe
that we will also live with HIM.
9 For we know that since CHRIST was raised
from the dead, HE cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over HIM.
10 The death HD died, HE died to
sin once for all; but THE LIFE HE lives, HE lives to GOD.
11 In the same way, count yourselves
dead to sin but alive to GOD in CHRIST
JESUS.
12 Therefore do not let sin
reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
13 Do not offer any part of yourself
to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to GOD as those who have
been brought from death to LIFE; and offer every part of yourself to HIM as an
instrument of RIGHTEOUSNESS.
14 For sin shall no longer be your
master, because you are not under the law, but under GRACE.”
