Romans 5–6

Chapter 5

Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ:

²By whom also we have access through faith into this grace wherein we stand: and glory in the hope of the glory of the sons of God.

³And not only so: but we glory also in tribulation, knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

⁴And patience trial; and trial hope;

⁵And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost who is given to us.

⁶For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly?

⁷For scarce for a just man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some one would dare to die.

⁸But God commendeth his charity towards us: because when as yet we were sinners according to the time.

⁹Christ died for us. Much more therefore, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from wrath through him.

¹⁰For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son: much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

¹¹And not only so: but also we glory in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation.

¹²Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world and by sin death: and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned.

¹³For until the law sin was in the world: but sin was not imputed, when the law was not.

¹⁴But death reigned from Adam unto Moses, even over them also who have not sinned, after the similitude of the transgression of Adam, who is a figure of him who was to come.

¹⁵But not as the offence, so also the gift. For if by the offence of one, many died: much more the grace of God and the gift, by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

¹⁶And not as it was by one sin, so also is the gift. For judgment indeed was by one unto condemnation: but grace is of many offences unto justification.

¹⁷For if by one man’s offence death reigned through one; much more they who receive abundance of grace and of the gift and of justice shall reign in life through one, Jesus Christ.

¹⁸Therefore, as by the offence of one, unto all men to condemnation: so also by the justice of one, unto all men to justification of life.

¹⁹For as by the disobedience of one man, many were made sinners: so also by the obedience of one, many shall be made just.

²⁰Now the law entered in that sin might abound. And where sin abounded, grace did more abound.

²¹That as sin hath reigned to death: so also grace might reign by justice unto life everlasting, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Chapter 6

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

²God forbid! For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?

³Know you not that all we who are baptized in Christ Jesus are baptized in his death?

⁴For 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.

⁵For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.

⁶Knowing 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.

⁷For he that is dead is justified from sin.

⁸Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ.

⁹Knowing that Christ, rising again from the dead, dieth now no more. Death shall no more have dominion over him.

¹⁰For in that he died to sin, he died once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

¹¹So do you also reckon that you are dead to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹²Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.

¹³Neither 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.

¹⁴For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.

¹⁵What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid!

¹⁶Know 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.

¹⁷But 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.

¹⁸Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.

¹⁹I 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.

²⁰For when you were the servants of sin, you were free men to justice.

²¹What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.

²²But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting.

²³For the wages of sin is death. But the grace of God, life everlasting in Christ Jesus our Lord.