Romans 6

Dead to Sin, Alive to God

1 What shall we say then? m Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can n we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us o who have been baptized p into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were q buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as r Christ was raised from the dead by s the glory of the Father, we too might walk in t newness of life.

5 For u if we have been united with him in v a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 We know that w our old self 1 x was crucified with him in order that y the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For z one who has died a has been set free 2 from sin. 8 Now b if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 We know that c Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; d death no longer has dominion over him. 10 For the death he died he died to sin, e once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11 So you also must consider yourselves f dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

12 Let not g sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 h Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but i present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14 For j sin k will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Slaves to Righteousness

15 What then? l Are we to sin m because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves n to anyone as obedient slaves, 3 you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But o thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the p standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and, q having been set free from sin, r have become slaves of righteousness. 19 s I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For t just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members u as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

20 v For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 w But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things x of which you are now ashamed? y For the end of those things is death. 22 But now that you z have been set free from sin and a have become slaves of God, b the fruit you get leads to sanctification and c its end, eternal life. 23 d For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  1. Cross References
    Romans 6:15
    What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
    Romans 3:8
    And why not do evil that good may come? - as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
  2. Cross References
    Romans 6:11
    So you also must consider yourselves dead to si...
    Romans 7:4
    Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to th...
    Romans 7:6
    But now we are released from the law, having di...
    Galatians 2:19
    For through the law I died to the law, so that ...
    Colossians 2:20
    If with Christ you died to the elemental spirit...
    Colossians 3:3
    For you have died, and your life is hidden with...
    1 Peter 2:24
    He himself bore our sins in his body on the tre...
  3. Cross References
    Galatians 3:27
    For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
  4. Cross References
    Matthew 28:19
    Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
  5. Cross References
    Colossians 2:12
    Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
  6. Cross References
    Romans 6:9
    We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
    Romans 8:11
    If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
    Acts 2:24
    God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
  7. Cross References
    John 11:40
    Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?
    2 Corinthians 13:4
    For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.
  8. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 5:17
    Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
    Galatians 6:15
    For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
    Ephesians 4:23 - 24
    And to be renewed in the spirit of your minds.
    Colossians 3:10
    And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
    Romans 7:6
    But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
  9. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 4:10
    Always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
  10. Cross References
    Philippians 3:10 - 11
    That I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death.
    Colossians 2:12
    Having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
    Colossians 3:1
    If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
  11. Cross References
    Ephesians 4:22
    To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires.
    Colossians 3:9
    Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices
  12. Cross References
    Galatians 2:20
    I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life 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 belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
    Galatians 6:14
    But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
  13. Cross References
    Romans 7:24
    Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
  14. Cross References
    1 Peter 4:1
    Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin.
  15. Cross References
    Romans 6:18
    And, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
  16. Cross References
    2 Timothy 2:11
    The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him.
    2 Corinthians 4:10
    Always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
    2 Corinthians 13:4
    For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.
  17. Cross References
    Acts 13:34
    And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way, "'I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.
    Revelation 1:18
    And the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.
  18. Cross References
    Romans 5:14
    Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come.
    Romans 5:17
    For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
  19. Cross References
    Hebrews 7:27
    He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.
  20. Cross References
    Romans 6:2
    By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
  21. Cross References
    Romans 6:14
    For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
    Psalms 19:13
    Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.
    Psalms 119:133
    Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.
    Micah 7:19
    He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
    2 Corinthians 5:17
    Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
  22. Cross References
    Romans 7:5
    For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
    Colossians 3:5
    Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
  23. Cross References
    Romans 12:1
    I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
    1 Peter 2:24
    He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
    1 Peter 4:2
    So as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.
  24. Cross References
    Romans 8:2
    For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
    Romans 8:12
    So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
  25. Cross References
    Romans 6:12
    Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.
  26. Cross References
    Romans 6:1
    What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
  27. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 9:21
    To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.
  28. Cross References
    Romans 6:20
    For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
    Matthew 6:24
    No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
    John 8:34
    Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.
  29. Cross References
    Romans 1:8
    First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
  30. Cross References
    2 Timothy 1:13
    Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
  31. Cross References
    Romans 6:22
    But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
    Romans 8:2
    For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
    Romans 6:7
    For one who has died has been set free from sin.
    John 8:32
    And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
  32. Cross References
    Romans 6:22
    But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
  33. Cross References
    Romans 3:5
    But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? ( I speak in a human way.)
  34. Cross References
    Romans 6:13
    Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
  35. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 9:27
    But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
  36. Cross References
    Romans 6:16
    Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
  37. Cross References
    Romans 7:5
    For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
    Jeremiah 12:13
    They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the Lord.
  38. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 4:2
    But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.
  39. Cross References
    Romans 1:32
    Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
    Romans 8:6
    For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
    Romans 8:13
    For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
    Proverbs 14:12
    There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
    Galatians 6:8
    For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
  40. Cross References
    Romans 6:18
    And, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
  41. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 7:22
    For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ.
    1 Peter 2:16
    Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
  42. Cross References
    Romans 7:4
    Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
  43. Cross References
    1 Peter 1:9
    Obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
  44. Cross References
    Romans 2:7
    To those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
    Romans 5:12
    Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned -
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