Romans_Chapter 6
So, how do we say that? Can we still be in sin, so that grace may abound?
Absolutely impossible. How can we, who have died in sin, still live in sin?
Do you not know that we, who were baptized into Christ Jesus, were baptized into his death?
So, we are buried with him through baptism, so that our every move may have a new appearance, just as Christ was resurrected from the dead through the glory of the Father.
If we unite with him in the form of his death, we will also unite with him in the form of his resurrection.
Because we know that our old man was crucified with him, causing the body of sin to be destroyed, so that we may no longer be slaves to sin.
Because the dead are free from sin.
If we die with Christ, we believe that we will live with him.
Because he knows that since Christ was resurrected from the dead, he will no longer die, and death will no longer be his Lord.
He died to sin only once. He lives to the gods.
In this way, you should also consider yourself dead when facing sin. To God in Christ Jesus, but consider yourself alive.
So do not allow sin to reign on your mortal body, so that you may obey the desires of your body.
Do not offer your limbs to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Instead, like those who have been resurrected from the dead, offer themselves to God. And offer the limbs as instruments of righteousness to God.
Sin cannot be your master. Because you are not under the law, but under grace.
But what about this? Can we sin under grace and not under the law? Absolutely impossible.
Do you not know that you offer yourselves as slaves, and whoever you obey will become their slaves? Or become a servant of sin, to the point of death. Or serve as obedient servants, even to become righteous.
Thank God, for although you were once slaves of sin, now you have been obedient to the model of the teachings that were taught to you from the heart.
Since you have been released from sin, you have become servants of righteousness.
Because of the weakness of your flesh, I speak to you according to the common saying of men, How did you once offer your limbs as slaves to unclean and lawless, to the point of lawlessness. Even now we must offer our limbs to righteousness as servants, so that they may become holy.
Because when you were slaves to sin, you were not bound by righteousness.
What fruit did you have on that day of what you see as shame now? The outcome of those things is death.
But now that you have been released from sin and enslaved to God, you have the fruit of sanctification, and the end is eternal life.
Because the wages of sin are death. Only the gift of God is eternal life in our Lord Christ Jesus.