Outline
- Commendation, Greetings and Doxology (ch. 16)
Romans 6
1 Well then, should we keep on sinning so
that God can show us more and more of his wonderful grace?
2 Of course not! Since we have died to
sin, how can we continue to live in it?
3 Or have you forgotten that when we were
joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death?
4 For we died and were buried with Christ
by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power
of the Father, now we also may live new lives.
5 Since we have been united with him in
his death, we will also be raised to life as he was.
6 We know that our old sinful selves were
crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no
longer slaves to sin.
7 For when we died with Christ we were set
free from the power of sin.
8 And since we died with Christ, we know
we will also live with him.
9 We are sure of this because Christ was
raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any
power over him.
10 When he died, he died once to break the
power of sin. But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God.
11 So you also should consider yourselves
to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus.
12 Do not let sin control the way you live;
do not give in to sinful desires.
13 Do not let any part of your body become
an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God,
for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an
instrument to do what is right for the glory of God.
14 Sin is no longer your master, for you no
longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the
freedom of God’s grace.
15 Well then, since God’s grace has set us
free from the law, does that mean we can go on sinning? Of course not!
16 Don’t you realize that you become the
slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to
death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living.
17 Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin,
but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have given you.
18 Now you are free from your slavery to
sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living.
19Because of the weakness of your human nature,
I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this.
Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led
ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous
living so that you will become holy.
20 When you were slaves to sin, you were
free from the obligation to do right.
21 And what was the result? You are now
ashamed of the things you used to do, things that end in eternal doom.
22 But now you are free from the power of
sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to
holiness and result in eternal life.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the
free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
