Romans 6, side by side

¹What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

¹What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

²May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

²God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

³Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

³Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

⁴We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

⁴Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

⁵For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;

⁵For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

⁶knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

⁶Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

⁷For he who has died has been freed from sin.

⁷For he that is dead is freed from sin.

⁸But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

⁸Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

⁹knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!

⁹Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

¹⁰For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

¹⁰For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

¹¹Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹¹Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

¹²Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

¹²Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

¹³Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

¹³Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

¹⁴For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

¹⁴For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

¹⁵What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

¹⁵What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

¹⁶Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

¹⁶Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

¹⁷But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

¹⁷But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

¹⁸Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

¹⁸Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

¹⁹I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

¹⁹I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

²⁰For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

²⁰For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

²¹What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

²¹What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

²²But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

²²But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

²³For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

²³For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.