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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Romans 6 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/romans/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/romans/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Romans 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../romans/5.htm" title="Romans 5">◄</a> Romans 6 <a href="../romans/7.htm" title="Romans 7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/romans/6.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Dead to Sin, Alive to God</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>We know that our old self<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek man">a</a></sup></span> was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For one who has died has been set free<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek has been justified">b</a></sup></span> from sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.</p> <p class="heading">Slaves to Righteousness</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface; twice in this verse; also verses 17, 19 (twice), 20">c</a></sup></span> you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Greek <i>man</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> Greek <i><span class="catch-word">has been</span> justified</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> For the contextual rendering of the Greek word <i language="Greek">doulos</i>, see <a href="../">>Preface</a>; twice in this verse; also verses 17, 19 (twice), 20<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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