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Romans 6

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Romans 6:1WEB

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

Romans 6:2WEB

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

Romans 6:3WEB

Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Romans 6:4WEB

We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Romans 6:5WEB

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;

Romans 6:6WEB

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

Romans 6:7WEB

For he who has died has been freed from sin.

Romans 6:8WEB

But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,

Romans 6:9WEB

knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!

Romans 6:10WEB

For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

Romans 6:11WEB

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:12WEB

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

Romans 6:13WEB

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Romans 6:14WEB

For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.

Romans 6:15WEB

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!

Romans 6:16WEB

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

Romans 6:17WEB

But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

Romans 6:18WEB

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

Romans 6:19WEB

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

Romans 6:20WEB

For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

Romans 6:21WEB

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

Romans 6:22WEB

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

Romans 6:23WEB

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.