Romans 6

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1 What then shall we say? Shall we persist in sin that grace may abound? Of course not!	1 What should we say then? Should we remain in sin so that grace may be given the more fully?
2 How can we who died to sin yet live in it?	2 Out of the question! We have died to sin; how could we go on living in it?
3 Or are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?	3 You cannot have forgotten that al of us, when we were baptised into Christ Jesus, were baptised intohis death.
4 We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in newness of life.	4 So by our baptism into his death we were buried with him, so that as Christ was raised from the deadby the Father's glorious power, we too should begin living a new life.
5 For if we have grown into union with him through a death like his, we shall also be united with him in the resurrection.	5 If we have been joined to him by dying a death like his, so we shal be by a resurrection like his;
6 We know that our old self was crucified with him, so that our sinful body might be done away with, that we might no longer be in slavery to sin.	6 realising that our former self was crucified with him, so that the self which belonged to sin should be destroyed and we should be freed from the slavery of sin.
7 For a dead person has been absolved from sin.	7 Someone who has died, of course, no longer has to answer for sin.
8 If, then, we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.	8 But we believe that, if we died with Christ, then we shal live with him too.
9 We know that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over him.	9 We know that Christ has been raised from the dead and will never die again. Death has no power overhim any more.
10 As to his death, he died to sin once and for all; as to his life, he lives for God.	10 For by dying, he is dead to sin once and for all, and now the life that he lives is life with God.
11 Consequently, you too must think of yourselves as (being) dead to sin and living for God in Christ Jesus.	11 In the same way, you must see yourselves as being dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore, sin must not reign over your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires.	12 That is why you must not al ow sin to reign over your mortal bodies and make you obey their desires;
13 And do not present the parts of your bodies to sin as weapons for wickedness, but present yourselves to God as raised from the dead to life and the parts of your bodies to God as weapons for righteousness.	13 or give any parts of your bodies over to sin to be used as instruments of evil. Instead, give yourselvesto God, as people brought to life from the dead, and give every part of your bodies to God to be instruments ofuprightness;
14 For sin is not to have any power over you, since you are not under the law but under grace.	14 and then sin wil no longer have any power over you -- you are living not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Of course not!	15 What is the implication? That we are free to sin, now that we are not under law but under grace? Outof the question!
16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?	16 You know wel that if you undertake to be somebody's slave and obey him, you are the slave of himyou obey: you can be the slave either of sin which leads to death, or of obedience which leads to saving justice.
17 But thanks be to God that, although you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from the heart to the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted.	17 Once you were slaves of sin, but thank God you have given whole-hearted obedience to the patternof teaching to which you were introduced;
18 Freed from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness.	18 and so, being freed from serving sin, you took uprightness as your master.
19 I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature. For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawless ness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.	19 I am putting it in human terms because you are stil weak human beings: as once you surrenderedyourselves as servants to immorality and to a lawlessness which results in more lawlessness, now you have tosurrender yourselves to uprightness which is to result in sanctification.
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.	20 When you were the servants of sin, you felt no obligation to uprightness,
21 But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.	21 and what did you gain from living like that? Experiences of which you are now ashamed, for that sortof behaviour ends in death.
22 But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit that you have leads to sanctification, and its end is eternal life.	22 But, now you are set free from sin and bound to the service of God, your gain wil be sanctificationand the end will be eternal life.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.	23 For the wage paid by sin is death; the gift freely given by God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.