Romanos 6

1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We 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.

5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection; 6 knowing 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. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, 9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him! 10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God. 11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

12 Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 Also, 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. 14 For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.

15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! 16 Don’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? 17 But 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. 18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

19 I 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. 20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. 21 What 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. 22 But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Ka Mate ki te Hara engari ka Ora i te Karaiti

1 Ha, kia pēhea he kōrero mā tātou? Kia mau tonu oti tātou ki te hara, kia hua ai te aroha noa? 2 Kāhore rāpea. Ko tātou kua whakatūpāpakutia nei ki te hara, me pēhea tātou e noho tonu atu ai anō i roto i taua hara? 3 Kāhore ianei koutou i mōhio, ko tātou kua iriiria nei ki roto ki a Karaiti Īhu, kua iriiria ki roto ki tōna matenga? 4 Nā, kua tanumia ngātahitia tātou me ia ki roto ki te matenga, he mea nā te iriiri; kia rite ai ki a te Karaiti i whakaarahia ake nei i te hunga mate e te korōria o te Matua, waihoki ko tātou kia haere i roto i te houtanga o te ora.

5 Ki te mea hoki kua honoa tātou ki a ia i runga i te āhua o tōna matenga, ka honoa anō tātou ki a ia i runga i te āhua o tōna aranga. 6 E mōhio ana hoki ki tēnei, kua rīpekatia ngātahitia me ia tō tātou tangata tawhito, kia hemo ai te tinana o te hara, kia mutu ai tō tātou ponongatanga ki te hara. 7 Ko te mea hoki kua mate, kua mawheto ia i te hara.

8 Ki te mea kua mate tahi tātou ko te Karaiti, e whakapono ana tātou e ora tahi anō tātou me ia. 9 E mātau ana hoki tātou, ka ara nei a te Karaiti i te hunga mate, heoi anō ōna matenga; kāhore he kīngitanga o te mate ki a ia ā mua tonu atu. 10 Ko tōna matenga hoki i mate ai ia, he mate kotahi ki te hara; ko tōna oranga ia, he ora ki te Atua. 11 Waihoki mahara iho ki a koutou, kua whakatūpāpakutia koutou ki te hara, e ora ana ia ki te Atua, i roto i a Īhu Karaiti.

12 Mō konei rā aua te hara e kīngi i roto i tō koutou tinana mate, e ngohengohe ai koutou ki tā ngā hiahia poke o taua tinana nei. 13 Kaua hoki e tukua ō koutou wāhi ki te hara hei kaimahi i te hē; engari, tukua atu koutou ki te Atua, he hunga kua ora i roto i te hunga mate, me ō koutou wāhi hoki hei kaimahi i te tika ki te Atua. 14 E kore hoki te hara e waiho hei rangatira mō koutou. Ehara i te mea kei raro koutou i te ture, engari, kei raro kē i te aroha noa.

Pononga a te Tika

15 He aha koia? Kia hara oti tātou, nō te mea ehara tātou i te ture, engari, nō te aroha noa? Kāhore rāpea! 16 Kāhore oti koutou i mātau, ki te tuku koutou i a koutou ki tētahi hei pononga, he pononga koutou nā tērā kua ngohengohe nā koutou ki tāna; nā te hara rānei, ā, mate iho, nā te ngohengohe rānei, ā, tika ake? 17 Ko tēnei me whakawhetai ki te Atua, ahakoa he pononga koutou nā te hara i mua, kua meinga ō koutou ngākau kia ngohengohe ki te ako i whakaakona ai koutou. 18 Nā, ka ātea nei koutou i te hara, ka meinga koutou he pononga nā te tika.

19 He kupu tangata tēnei nāku, nā te ngoikore o tō koutou kikokiko. Nā, i tukua rā ō koutou wāhi hei pononga mā te poke, mā te tutū, ki te mahi tutū; waihoki me tuku ō koutou wāhi āianei hei pononga mā te tika, puta ake he tapu.

20 I a koutou hoki e pononga ana ki te hara, e ātea ana koutou i te tika. 21 Nā, i taua wā, he aha ngā hua i a koutou o ngā mea e whakamā nā koutou ināianei? He mate hoki te mutunga o aua mea. 22 Tēnā ko tēnei, ka ātea nei koutou i te hara, ā, ka meinga hei pononga mā te Atua, ko ngā hua ki a koutou he tapu, ā, ko te tukunga iho he ora tonu. 23 Ko ngā utu hoki o te hara he mate; ko tā te Atua ia i hōmai ai he ora tonu, i roto i a Karaiti Īhu, i tō tātou Ariki.