6:1What then shall we say? 6:1Shall we remain in sin so that grace may abound? 6:2Far from it. 6:2For we who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it? 6:3Or are you ignorant that whoever of us have been baptized in Christ Jesus, have been baptized in his death? 6:4For we have been buried together with him through baptism into death: so that as Christ rose from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life. 6:5For if we have been made planted together in the likeness of his death: together we shall be so of his resurrection too.
6:6Knowing this, that our old man has been crucified together with him, so that the body of sin may be destroyed, and we may no longer serve sin. 6:7For he who has died, has been justified from sin. 6:8But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live together with Christ, knowing that Christ, rising from the dead, no longer dies: death will no longer have lordship over him. 6:10For in that he died to sin, he died once: but in that he lives, he lives to God. 6:11So you too reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but living to God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
6:12Let sin therefore not reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires. 6:13But neither present your members as weapons of iniquity to sin: but present yourselves to God, as living from the dead: and your members as weapons of justice to God. 6:14For sin will not have lordship over you: for you are not under law, but under grace. 6:15What then? 6:15Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? 6:15Far from it. 6:16Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as slaves for obeying, you are slaves of him whom you obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto justice?
6:17But thanks be to God that you were slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of teaching, into which you have been handed over. 6:18And having been freed from sin, you have become slaves of justice. 6:19I speak a human thing, on account of the weakness of your flesh: for just as you presented your members to serve uncleanness, and iniquity unto iniquity, so now present your members to serve justice unto sanctification. 6:20For when you were slaves of sin, you were free of justice. 6:21What fruit then did you have then in those things, at which you now blush? 6:21For the end of those things is death.
6:22But now, having been freed from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and as the end eternal life. 6:23For the wages of sin, death. 6:23But the grace of God, eternal life, in Christ Jesus our Lord.