6:1  What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?

6:2  May it never happen! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

6:3  Or do you not know that all of us who have received baptism into Christ Jesus have received baptism into His death?

6:4  Therefore we have received burial with Him through baptism into death, so that as God raised Christ from the dead through His glory, so we too might walk in newness of life.

6:5  For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also join him in the likeness of His resurrection,

6:6  knowing this, that our old self suffered crucifixion with Him, in order that our body of sin might expire, so that we would no longer enslave ourselves to sin;

6:7  for he who has died has freed himself from sin.

6:8  Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

6:9  knowing that Christ, having resurrected from the dead, will never die again; death no longer will rule over Him.

6:10  For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

6:11  Even so consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

6:12   Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,

6:13  and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

6:14  For sin shall not have rule over you, for you do not feel under law but under grace.

6:15  What then? Shall we sin because we do not feel a threat from the law but under grace? May it never happen!

6:16  Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you enslave yourselves to the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

6:17  But we thank God that though you had enslaved yourselves to sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you committed yourselves,

6:18  and having found yourselves freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

6:19   I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification.

6:20  For when you enslaved yourselves sin, you became liberated in regard to righteousness.

6:21  Therefore what benefit did you attain derive from the things of which you now feel shame? For the outcome of those things constitutes death.

6:22  But now having received liberation from sin and enslavement to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.

6:23   For the wages of sin equates to death, but God gives us eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord as a free gift.