Romans 6

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 What should we say then? Should we remain in sin so that grace may be given the more fully?	1 What shall we say, then? shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 Out of the question! We have died to sin; how could we go on living in it?	2 God forbid. For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?
3 You cannot have forgotten that al of us, when we were baptised into Christ Jesus, were baptised intohis death.	3 Know you not that all we, who are baptized in Christ Jesus, are baptized in his death?
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.	4 For we are buried together with him by baptism into death; that as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life.
5 If we have been joined to him by dying a death like his, so we shal be by a resurrection like his;	5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.
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.	6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer.
7 Someone who has died, of course, no longer has to answer for sin.	7 For he that is dead is justified from sin.
8 But we believe that, if we died with Christ, then we shal live with him too.	8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ:
9 We know that Christ has been raised from the dead and will never die again. Death has no power overhim any more.	9 Knowing that Christ rising again from the dead, dieth now no more, death shall no more have dominion over him.
10 For by dying, he is dead to sin once and for all, and now the life that he lives is life with God.	10 For in that he died to sin, he died once; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God:
11 In the same way, you must see yourselves as being dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus.	11 So do you also reckon, that you are dead to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 That is why you must not al ow sin to reign over your mortal bodies and make you obey their desires;	12 Let no sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.
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;	13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin; but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of justice unto God.
14 and then sin wil no longer have any power over you -- you are living not under law, but under grace.	14 For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What is the implication? That we are free to sin, now that we are not under law but under grace? Outof the question!	15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
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.	16 Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto justice.
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;	17 But thanks be to God, that you were the servants of sin, but have obeyed from the heart, unto that form of doctrine, into which you have been delivered.
18 and so, being freed from serving sin, you took uprightness as your master.	18 Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.
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.	19 I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity; so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification.
20 When you were the servants of sin, you felt no obligation to uprightness,	20 For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice.
21 and what did you gain from living like that? Experiences of which you are now ashamed, for that sortof behaviour ends in death.	21 What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.
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.	22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting.
23 For the wage paid by sin is death; the gift freely given by God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.	23 For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting, in Christ Jesus our Lord.