Romans 6

Dead to Sin, Alive to God

1 What shall we say then? a Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who b died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that c as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus d were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were e buried with Him through baptism into death, that f just as Christ was raised from the dead by g the glory of the Father, h even so we also should walk in newness of life.

5 i For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that j our old man was crucified with Him, that k the body of sin might be 1 done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For l he who has died has been 2 freed from sin. 8 Now m if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that n Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, o He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, p He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, 3 reckon yourselves to be q dead indeed to sin, but r alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

12 s Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your t members as 4 instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but u present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For v sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Slaves to Righteousness

15 What then? Shall we sin w because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! 16 Do you not know that x to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? 17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart y that form of doctrine to which you were 5 delivered. 18 And z having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness 6 for holiness.

20 For when you were a slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 b What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For c the end of those things is death. 22 But now d having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit 7 to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. 23 For e the wages of sin is death, but f the 8 gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  1. Cross References
    Romans 3:8
    And why not say, "Let us do evil that good may come"? - as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say. Their condemnation is just.
    Romans 6:15
    What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
  2. Cross References
    Romans 6:11
    Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead...
    Romans 7:4
    Therefore, my brethren, you also have become de...
    Romans 7:6
    But now we have been delivered from the law, ha...
    Galatians 2:19
    For I through the law died to the law that I mi...
    Colossians 2:20
    Therefore, if you died with Christ from the bas...
    Colossians 3:3
    For you died, and your life is hidden with Chri...
    1 Peter 2:24
    Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on th...
  3. Cross References
    Acts 2:38
    Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
    Acts 8:16
    For as yet He had fallen upon none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
    Acts 19:5
    When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
    Galatians 3:27
    For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
    Colossians 2:12
    Buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
  4. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 15:29
    Otherwise, what will they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? Why then are they baptized for the dead?
  5. Cross References
    Colossians 2:12
    Buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
  6. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 6:14
    And God both raised up the Lord and will also raise us up by His power.
  7. Cross References
    John 2:11
    This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.
  8. Cross References
    Romans 7:6
    But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.
    2 Corinthians 5:17
    Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
    Galatians 6:15
    For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.
    Ephesians 4:23
    And be renewed in the spirit of your mind.
    Colossians 3:10
    And have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him.
  9. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 4:10
    Always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
    Philippians 3:10
    That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.
    Colossians 2:12
    Buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
    Colossians 3:1
    If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.
  10. Cross References
    Galatians 2:20
    I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
    Galatians 5:24
    And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
    Galatians 6:14
    But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
  11. Cross References
    Colossians 2:11
    In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ.
  12. Cross References
    1 Peter 4:1
    Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin.
  13. Cross References
    Romans 6:4
    Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
    2 Corinthians 4:10
    Always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
    2 Timothy 2:11
    This is a faithful saying: For if we died with Him, We shall also live with Him.
  14. Cross References
    Revelation 1:18
    I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.
  15. Cross References
    Hebrews 9:27
    And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.
  16. Cross References
    Luke 20:38
    "For He is not the God of the dead but of the living, for all live to Him."
  17. Cross References
    Romans 6:2
    Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
    Romans 7:4
    Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another - to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
    Romans 7:6
    But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.
  18. Cross References
    Galatians 2:19
    For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God.
    Colossians 2:20
    Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations -
    Colossians 3:3
    For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
    1 Peter 2:24
    Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness - by whose stripes you were healed.
  19. Cross References
    Psalms 19:13
    Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, And I shall be innocent of great transgression.
  20. Cross References
    Romans 6:16
    Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
    Romans 6:19
    I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.
    Romans 7:5
    For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.
    Colossians 3:5
    Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
    James 4:1
    Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?
  21. Cross References
    Romans 12:1
    I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
    2 Corinthians 5:14
    For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died.
    1 Peter 2:24
    Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness - by whose stripes you were healed.
    1 Peter 4:2
    That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
  22. Cross References
    Romans 7:4
    Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another - to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
    Romans 7:6
    But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.
    Romans 8:2
    For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
    Galatians 5:18
    But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
  23. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 9:21
    To those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
  24. Cross References
    Proverbs 5:22
    His own iniquities entrap the wicked man, And he is caught in the cords of his sin.
    Matthew 6:24
    No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
    John 8:34
    Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.
    2 Peter 2:19
    While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
  25. Cross References
    2 Timothy 1:13
    Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.
  26. Cross References
    John 8:32
    "And you shall know the truth, and the truth sh...
    Romans 6:22
    But now having been set free from sin, and havi...
    Romans 8:2
    For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jes...
    1 Corinthians 7:22
    For he who is called in the Lord while a slave ...
    Galatians 5:1
    Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Ch...
    1 Peter 2:16
    As free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for v...
  27. Cross References
    John 8:34
    Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.
  28. Cross References
    Jeremiah 12:13
    They have sown wheat but reaped thorns; They have put themselves to pain but do not profit. But be ashamed of your harvest Because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
    Ezekiel 16:63
    "that you may remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide you an atonement for all you have done," says the Lord GOD.'"
    Romans 7:5
    For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death.
  29. Cross References
    Romans 1:32
    Who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.
    Galatians 6:8
    For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.
  30. Cross References
    John 8:32
    "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
    Romans 6:18
    And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
    Romans 8:2
    For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
  31. Cross References
    Genesis 2:17
    "but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
  32. Cross References
    Romans 2:7
    Eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality.
    1 Peter 1:4
    To an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you.
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