Romans Chapter 6

Death to Sinning

¹ So should we say, “Let’s keep sinning so there’ll be more grace”? ² Goodness, no! How can we who died to sin keep living in it? ³ Don’t you know that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus, were baptized into his death? ⁴ Baptism buried us with him into death. As the Father gloriously raised Christ from the dead, we too can live in a new life. ⁵ If we’ve participated in what’s like his death, we’ll participate in what’s like his resurrection. ⁶ Know this: our old self was crucified with him to destroy the sinful body so we wouldn’t serve sin anymore. ⁷ Whoever dies is justified from sin. ⁸ If we’ve died with Christ, we believe we’ll live with him. ⁹ We know that since Christ arose from the dead, he won’t die again, and death doesn’t have control over him. ¹⁰ The death he died, he died to sin once and for all; the life he lives now, he keeps living to God. ¹¹ We consider ourselves dead to sin too, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.                                             

Rom 6:1-11

“Enslaved” to Righteousness

            ¹² So don’t let sin prevail in your mortal body by yielding to its drives. ¹³ Don’t keep offering your members as tools for unrighteousness. Offer yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and offer your members to him as tools for righteousness. ¹⁴ Sin won’t be controlling you because you’re under grace, not law.                                                                                            

¹⁵ What then? Should we sin because we’re under grace instead of law? Goodness, no! ¹⁶ Don’t you know that whatever you yield to, you’re ‘slaves’ to—‘servants’ to sin, which leads to death or ‘servants’ to obedience, which leads to righteousness? ¹⁷ Thank God, though you used to be servants to sin, you’ve obeyed from the heart the type of teaching you received. ¹⁸ You’ve been freed from sin and put ‘in servitude’ to righteousness ( ¹⁹ an illustration to help you understand). As you ‘put yourselves in servitude’ to unrighteousness and increasing lawlessness, now ‘put yourselves in servitude’ to righteousness and holiness. ²⁰ When you were servants to sin, you were ‘free’ from righteousness. ²¹ So, what things were you producing then that you’re ashamed of now? Their outcome was death. ²² Now that you’re free from sin and ‘in servitude’ to God, you’re producing holiness, whose outcome is eternal life. ²³ The wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is life in Christ Jesus our Lord.                

Rom 6:12-23