Romans 6

 

1 What shall we say then? Shall we (who are freely justified unto life by His grace) continue in (the motions of) sin (laboring to preserve our own lives in the world, which only serves us with the sting of death), so that grace may abound?

 

2 God forbid. How shall we (who have received the free gift of an indestructible life), (who are persuaded) that we are (now) dead to (the life where we must labor to obtain it in) sin, (continue to) live any longer in that way?

 

3 Do you not know that so many of us who have been baptized (were united) into Jesus Christ, being baptized into His death?

 

4 Therefore, we were buried with Him by baptism into (the) death (that He died): so that in the same way Christ was raised up (bodily) from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should (live and) walk in (the) newness (and certainty) of (an incorruptible) life.

 

5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death (wherein He died to any other life but the life of the Father), (of a certainty) we shall also be (raised) in the likeness of His (bodily) resurrection:

 

6 Knowing this, that our old man (in whom death reigned) is crucified with Him, so that the body of (death that enslaved us to) sin might be destroyed, so that from now on we should not (be slaves to) serve (ourselves with life through the motions of) sin (that worked in our members to produce the fruit of death).

 

7 For he that is dead (to death) is freed from (the sting of death, the labor to preserve his life in) sin.

 

8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him (in the same life, even unto bodily immortality):

 

9 Knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more; death has no more dominion over Him.

 

10 For in that He died, He died (in the flesh) to the body of death once: but in that He lives, He lives to God (in an immortal glorified human body forevermore).

 

11 Likewise, consider yourselves also to be dead (to death, which once worked in your members), indeed (laboring) to (preserve your life in) sin, but (now) alive to God through (your union with) Jesus Christ our Lord (which union is the unstoppable certainty of His same life in you).

 

12 Where you therefore do not allow sin to reign (through the death) in your mortal body, so that you should obey it, and the lust (to take up your own life that) it can produce.

 

13 Neither (will you) yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin (unto death): but (will instead) yield yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto (the life and immortality of) God (in Christ).

 

14 For (being persuaded that in Christ, you are dead to death once and for all) sin will no longer have dominion over you: for you are no longer (in bondage to death) under the law (of sin and death), but (set free) under (the) grace (which came in Jesus Christ, the gift of God to freely serve you with His life).

 

15 What then (shall we conclude)? Do we sin because we are no longer under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

 

16 Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey, whether of (the) transgression (which leads) to death, or of obedience to (the) righteousness (which is of the faith of Jesus Christ unto life)?

 

17 But God be thanked, that you were slaves of sin (which produced the fruit of death), but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine (that hits the mark He set for your life) which was delivered to you (in the faith of Jesus Christ).

 

18 Being (dead to death you were) then made free from laboring and toiling to serve yourself with life, (rather) you became (alive to God) the servants of (His) righteousness.

 

19 I speak in men’s terms because of the weakness of your (dying) flesh (to produce any good thing): for as you have (in times past) yielded your members servants to (all) impurity and to (add your) iniquity to (the) iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to the righteousness (of God in Christ) unto (His life and) sanctification (even unto the purification of your flesh immortal).

 

20 For when you were the servants of iniquity (it brought forth the fruit of death), you were free from (the) righteousness (that produces all the fruit of His life).

 

21 What fruit resulted then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is (always) death.

 

22 But now being made free from (death) sin (no longer has any dominion over you), and (you have) become servants (in union) to God (in Christ), (wherein) you have your fruit unto the life He has set apart for (from the beginning), and (nothing can separate you from) the end (which is) everlasting life (and immortality in your flesh).

 

23 For the wages of (relying upon the strength of your dying flesh to preserve your life is the) sin (which misses the mark God has set of His life and immortality and only) serves with death; but the gift of God is (the certainty of) eternal life (and bodily immortality) through (union with) Jesus Christ our Lord.