Bible Gateway passage: Romans 6 - New International Version (2024)

Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

6What shall we say, then?^(A) Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?^{(B) 2}By no means! We are those who have died to sin;^(C) how can we live in it any longer? ³Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized^(D) into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death^(E) in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead^(F) through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.^(G)

⁵For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.^{(H) 6}For we know that our old self^(I) was crucified with him^(J) so that the body ruled by sin^(K) might be done away with,^[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin^(L)— ⁷because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.^(M)

⁸Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.^{(N) 9}For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead,^(O) he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.^{(P) 10}The death he died, he died to sin^(Q) once for all;^(R) but the life he lives, he lives to God.

¹¹In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin^(S) but alive to God in Christ Jesus. ¹²Therefore do not let sin reign^(T) in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. ¹³Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness,^(U) but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.^{(V) 14}For sin shall no longer be your master,^(W) because you are not under the law,^(X) but under grace.^(Y)

Slaves to Righteousness

¹⁵What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace?^(Z) By no means! ¹⁶Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey^(AA)—whether you are slaves to sin,^(AB) which leads to death,^(AC) or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? ¹⁷But thanks be to God^(AD) that, though you used to be slaves to sin,^(AE) you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching^(AF) that has now claimed your allegiance. ¹⁸You have been set free from sin^(AG) and have become slaves to righteousness.^(AH)

¹⁹I am using an example from everyday life^(AI) because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness^(AJ) leading to holiness. ²⁰When you were slaves to sin,^(AK) you were free from the control of righteousness.^{(AL) 21}What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!^{(AM) 22}But now that you have been set free from sin^(AN) and have become slaves of God,^(AO) the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.^{(AP) 23}For the wages of sin is death,^(AQ) but the gift of God is eternal life^(AR) in^[b] Christ Jesus our Lord.

Footnotes

1. Romans 6:6 Or be rendered powerless
2. Romans 6:23 Or through

Cross references

1. Romans 6:1 : S Ro 8:31
2. Romans 6:1 : ver 15; Ro 3:5, 8
3. Romans 6:2 : S ver 6; ver 10, 11; S ver 18; Ro 8:13; Col 3:3, 5; 1Pe 2:24
4. Romans 6:3 : S Mt 28:19
5. Romans 6:4 : S ver 6
6. Romans 6:4 : S Ac 2:24
7. Romans 6:4 : Ro 7:6; S 2Co 5:17; Eph 4:22-24; Col 3:10
8. Romans 6:5 : ver 4, 8; Ro 8:11; 2Co 4:10; Eph 2:6; Php 3:10, 11; Col 2:12; 3:1; 2Ti 2:11
9. Romans 6:6 : S Gal 5:24; Eph 4:22; Col 3:9
10. Romans 6:6 : S ver 2; ver 3-8; 2Co 4:10; Gal 2:20; 5:24; 6:14; Php 3:10; Col 2:12, 20; 3:3
11. Romans 6:6 : Ro 7:24
12. Romans 6:6 : S ver 16
13. Romans 6:7 : S ver 18
14. Romans 6:8 : S ver 5
15. Romans 6:9 : ver 4; S Ac 2:24
16. Romans 6:9 : Rev 1:18
17. Romans 6:10 : S ver 2
18. Romans 6:10 : S Heb 7:27
19. Romans 6:11 : S ver 2
20. Romans 6:12 : ver 16
21. Romans 6:13 : ver 16, 19; Ro 7:5
22. Romans 6:13 : Ro 12:1; 2Co 5:14, 15; 1Pe 2:24
23. Romans 6:14 : S ver 16
24. Romans 6:14 : S Ro 2:12
25. Romans 6:14 : S Ro 3:24
26. Romans 6:15 : ver 1, 14
27. Romans 6:16 : 2Pe 2:19
28. Romans 6:16 : ver 6, 12, 14, 17, 20; Ge 4:7; Ps 51:5; 119:133; Jn 8:34; Ro 5:21; 7:14, 23, 25; 8:2; 2Pe 2:19
29. Romans 6:16 : S ver 23
30. Romans 6:17 : Ro 1:8; S 2Co 2:14
31. Romans 6:17 : S ver 16
32. Romans 6:17 : 2Ti 1:13
33. Romans 6:18 : S ver 2; ver 7, 22; Ro 8:2; 1Pe 4:1; S ver 16
34. Romans 6:18 : S ver 22
35. Romans 6:19 : Ro 3:5; Gal 3:15
36. Romans 6:19 : S ver 13; S ver 22
37. Romans 6:20 : S ver 16
38. Romans 6:20 : ver 16
39. Romans 6:21 : S ver 23
40. Romans 6:22 : S ver 18
41. Romans 6:22 : ver 18, 19; Ro 7:25; 1Co 7:22; Eph 6:6; 1Pe 2:16
42. Romans 6:22 : S Mt 25:46
43. Romans 6:23 : ver 16, 21; Ge 2:17; Pr 10:16; Eze 18:4; Ro 1:32; S 5:12; 7:5, 13; 8:6, 13; Gal 6:7, 8; Jas 1:15
44. Romans 6:23 : S Mt 25:46