Romans 6, side by side

¹What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?

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

²Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?

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

³Or aren’t you aware that all of us 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 therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may 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 been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in 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:

⁶We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves 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 anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

⁷For he that is dead is freed from sin.

⁸Now 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:

⁹For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; 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.

¹⁰The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life 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.

¹¹So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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

¹²Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

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

¹³Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.

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 shall not be your master, because 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? Certainly not!

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

¹⁶Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading 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, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.

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.

¹⁸You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

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

¹⁹I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

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 slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.

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

²¹What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome 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 that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is 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 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.