Romans 6

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 What should we say then? Should we remain in sin so that grace may be given the more fully?	1 So what shall we say? Should we remain in sin, so that grace may abound?
2 Out of the question! We have died to sin; how could we go on living in it?	2 Let it not be so! For how can we who have died to sin still live in sin?
3 You cannot have forgotten that al of us, when we were baptised into Christ Jesus, were baptised intohis death.	3 Do you not know that those of us who have been baptized in Christ Jesus have been baptized into 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 through baptism we have been buried with him into death, so that, in the manner that Christ rose from the dead, by the glory of the Father, so may we also walk in the 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, so shall we also be, 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 For we know this: that our former selves have been crucified together with him, so that the body which is of sin may be destroyed, and moreover, so that we may no longer serve sin.
7 Someone who has died, of course, no longer has to answer for sin.	7 For he who has died has been justified from sin.
8 But we believe that, if we died with Christ, then we shal live with him too.	8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live 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 For we know that Christ, in rising up from the dead, can no longer die: death no longer has 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 as much as he died for sin, he died once. But in as much as he lives, he lives for God.
11 In the same way, you must see yourselves as being dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus.	11 And so, you should consider yourselves to be certainly dead to sin, and to be living for 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 Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body, such that you would obey its desires.
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 Nor should you offer the parts of your body as instruments of iniquity for sin. Instead, offer yourselves to God, as if you were living after death, and offer the parts of your body as instruments of justice for 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 should 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 is next? Should we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? Let it not be so!
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 Do you not know to whom you are offering yourselves as servants under obedience? You are the servants of whomever you obey: whether 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, though you used to be the servants of sin, now you have been obedient from the heart to the very form of the doctrine into which you have been received.
18 and so, being freed from serving sin, you took uprightness as your master.	18 And having been freed from sin, we have become 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 am speaking in human terms because of the infirmity of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of your body to serve impurity and iniquity, for the sake of iniquity, so also have you now yielded the parts of your body to serve justice, for the sake of sanctification.
20 When you were the servants of sin, you felt no obligation to uprightness,	20 For though you were once the servants of sin, you have become the children of 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 But what fruit did you hold at that time, in those things about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things 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 Yet truly, having been freed now from sin, and having been made servants of God, you hold your fruit in sanctification, and truly its end is eternal life.
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 free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.