1 What should we say then?  * 6:1 Rm 3:5 Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply?  * 6:1 Rm 3:8; 6:152 Absolutely not!  * 6:2 Lk 20:16 How can we who died to sin  * 6:2 Rm 7:4,6; Gl 2:19; Col 2:20; 3:3; 1Pt 2:24 still live in it? 3 Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized  * 6:3 Mt 28:19; 1Co 1:13–17; 12:13; Gl 3:27 into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?  * 6:3 Ac 2:38; 8:16; 19:54 Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death,  * 6:4 Col 2:12 in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead  * 6:4 Ac 2:24 by the glory of the Father,  * 6:4 Jn 11:40; 2Co 13:4 so we too may walk in newness  * 6:4 Or a new way of life.  * 6:4 Rm 7:6; 2Co 5:17; Gl 6:15; Eph 4:23–24; Col 3:105 For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death,  * 6:5 2Co 4:10; Php 3:10; Col 2:12; 3:1 we will certainly also be  * 6:5 Be joined with him in the likeness of his resurrection. 6 For we know that our old self  * 6:6 Lit man,* 6:6 Eph 4:22; Col 3:9 was crucified with him  * 6:6 Gl 2:20; 5:24; 6:14 so that the body ruled by sin  * 6:6 Lit that the body of sin might be rendered powerless  * 6:6 Rm 7:24 so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin, 7 since a person who has died  * 6:7 1Pt 4:1 is freed  * 6:7 Or justified; lit acquitted from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ,  * 6:8 2Co 4:10; 2Tm 2:11 we believe that we will also live with him, 9 because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead,  * 6:9 Ac 2:24 will not die again. Death no longer rules over him.  * 6:9 Rv 1:1810 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all time; but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11 So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin  * 6:11 Rm 7:4,6; Gl 2:19; Col 2:20; 3:3; 1Pt 2:24 and alive to God in Christ Jesus.  * 6:11 Other mss add our Lord

12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey  * 6:12 Other mss add sin (lit it) in its desires. 13 And do not offer any parts  * 6:13 Or members, also in v. 19 of it to sin  * 6:13 Rm 7:5; Col 3:5 as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God,  * 6:13 Rm 12:1; 2Co 5:14; 1Pt 2:24 and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness. 14 For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law  * 6:14 Rm 5:18; 7:4,6; Gl 4:21 but under grace.  * 6:14 Rm 5:17,21

15 What then? Should we sin because we are not under the law but under grace?  * 6:15 Rm 6:1 Absolutely not!  * 6:15 Lk 20:1616 Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone  * 6:16 Lit that to whom you offer yourselves as obedient slaves,  * 6:16 Rm 11:2; 1Co 3:16; 5:6; 6:2–3,9,15–16,19; 9:13,24 you are slaves of that one you obey  * 6:16 Jn 8:34; 2Pt 2:19  — either of sin leading to death  * 6:16 Rm 6:23 or of obedience leading to righteousness? 17 But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin,  * 6:17 Rm 1:8; 2Co 2:14 you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were handed  * 6:17 Or entrusted over,  * 6:17 2Tm 1:318 and having been set free from sin,  * 6:18 Jn 8:32; Rm 8:2 you became enslaved to righteousness. 19 I am using a human analogy  * 6:19 Rm 3:5 because of the weakness of your flesh.  * 6:19 Or your human nature For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.  * 6:20 Lit free to righteousness,* 6:20 Mt 6:2421 So what fruit was produced  * 6:21 Lit what fruit do you have then from the things you are now ashamed of?  * 6:21 Jr 12:13; Ezk 16:63; Rm 7:5 The outcome of those things is death.  * 6:21 Rm 1:32; 5:12; 8:6,13; Gl 6:822 But now, since you have been set free from sin and have become enslaved to God,  * 6:22 1Co 7:22; 1Pt 2:16 you have your fruit, which results in sanctification  * 6:22 Rm 7:4  — and the outcome is eternal life!  * 6:22 1Pt 1:923 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.  * 6:23 Mt 25:46; Rm 5:21; 8:39