Romans 5:18–6:23

¹⁸So then as through ^aone transgression ¹there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one ^bact of righteousness ²there resulted ^cjustification of life to all men.

¹⁹For as through the one man’s disobedience ^athe many ^bwere made sinners, even so through ^cthe obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.

^201aThe Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, ^bgrace abounded all the more,

²¹so that, as ^asin reigned in death, even so ^bgrace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Chapter 6

Believers Are Dead to Sin, Alive to God

^1aWhat shall we say then? Are we to ^bcontinue in sin so that grace may increase?

^2aMay it never be! How shall we who ^bdied to sin still live in it?

³Or do you not know that all of us who have been ^abaptized into ^bChrist Jesus have been baptized into His death?

⁴Therefore we have been ^aburied with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was ^braised from the dead through the ^cglory of the Father, so we too might walk in ^dnewness of life.

⁵For ^aif we have become ¹united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be ²in the likeness of His resurrection,

⁶knowing this, that our ^aold ¹self was ^bcrucified with Him, in order that our ^cbody of sin might be ²done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

⁷for ^ahe who has died is ¹freed from sin.

⁸Now ^aif we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

⁹knowing that Christ, having been ^araised from the dead, ¹is never to die again; ^bdeath no longer is master over Him.

¹⁰For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

¹¹Even so consider yourselves to be ^adead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

¹²Therefore do not let sin ^areign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,

¹³and do not go on ^apresenting ¹the members of your body to sin as ²instruments of unrighteousness; but ^bpresent yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

¹⁴For ^asin shall not ^bbe master over you, for ^cyou are not under law but ^dunder grace.

¹⁵What then? ^aShall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? ^bMay it never be!

¹⁶Do you not ^aknow that when you present yourselves to someone as ^bslaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of ^csin ¹resulting in death, or of obedience ²resulting in righteousness?

¹⁷But ^athanks be to God that ¹though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that ^bform of teaching to which you were committed,

¹⁸and having been ^afreed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

^19aI am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just ^bas you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, ¹resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, ²resulting in sanctification.

²⁰For ^awhen you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

²¹Therefore what ^1abenefit were you then ²deriving ³from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is ^bdeath.

²²But now having been ^afreed from sin and ^benslaved to God, you ¹derive your ^2cbenefit, ³resulting in sanctification, and ^dthe outcome, eternal life.

²³For the wages of ^asin is death, but the free gift of God is ^beternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.