CINXE.COM

<!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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Romans 6 New American Bible</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="/bmcc/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/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NABRE</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">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch52006" class="chapter"> <h1 class="bksect">IV. <span class="ac">Justification and the Christian Life</span></h1> <h1 id="cn52006" class="cn"></h1> <p class="pf"><span class="hemb">Freedom from Sin; Life in God.</span> <span id="v52006001" class="ver">1</span><a id="rfn52006001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn52006001-1">*</a> What then shall we say? Shall we persist in sin that grace may abound? Of course not!<a id="ren52006001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006001-a">a</a> <span id="v52006002" class="ver">2</span>How can we who died to sin yet live in it?<a id="ren52006002-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006002-b">b</a> <span id="v52006003" class="ver">3</span>Or are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?<a id="ren52006003-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006003-c">c</a> <span id="v52006004" class="ver">4</span>We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in newness of life.<a id="ren52006004-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006004-d">d</a></p> <p><span id="v52006005" class="ver">5</span>For if we have grown into union with him through a death like his, we shall also be united with him in the resurrection.<a id="ren52006005-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006005-e">e</a> <span id="v52006006" class="ver">6</span>We know that our old self was crucified with him, so that our sinful body might be done away with, that we might no longer be in slavery to sin.<a id="ren52006006-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006006-f">f</a> <span id="v52006007" class="ver">7</span>For a dead person has been absolved from sin. <span id="v52006008" class="ver">8</span>If, then, we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.<a id="ren52006008-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006008-g">g</a> <span id="v52006009" class="ver">9</span>We know that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over him.<a id="ren52006009-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006009-h">h</a> <span id="v52006010" class="ver">10</span>As to his death, he died to sin once and for all; as to his life, he lives for God.<a id="ren52006010-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006010-i">i</a> <span id="v52006011" class="ver">11</span>Consequently, you too must think of yourselves as [being] dead to sin and living for God in Christ Jesus.<a id="ren52006011-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006011-j">j</a></p> <p><span id="v52006012" class="ver">12</span><a id="rfn52006012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn52006012-1">*</a> Therefore, sin must not reign over your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires.<a id="ren52006012-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006012-k">k</a> <span id="v52006013" class="ver">13</span>And do not present the parts of your bodies to sin as weapons for wickedness, but present yourselves to God as raised from the dead to life and the parts of your bodies to God as weapons for righteousness.<a id="ren52006013-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006013-l">l</a> <span id="v52006014" class="ver">14</span>For sin is not to have any power over you, since you are not under the law but under grace.<a id="ren52006014-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006014-m">m</a></p> <p><span id="v52006015" class="ver">15</span>What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Of course not!<a id="ren52006015-n" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006015-n">n</a> <span id="v52006016" class="ver">16</span>Do you not know that if you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves,<a id="ren52006016-o" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006016-o">o</a> you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?<a id="ren52006016-p" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006016-p">p</a> <span id="v52006017" class="ver">17</span>But thanks be to God that, although you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from the heart to the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted.<a id="rfn52006017-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn52006017-1">*</a> <span id="v52006018" class="ver">18</span>Freed from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness. <span id="v52006019" class="ver">19</span>I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature. For just as you presented the parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness for sanctification. <span id="v52006020" class="ver">20</span><a id="ren52006020-q" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006020-q">q</a> For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from righteousness.<a id="rfn52006020-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn52006020-1">*</a> <span id="v52006021" class="ver">21</span>But what profit did you get then from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.<a id="ren52006021-r" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006021-r">r</a> <span id="v52006022" class="ver">22</span>But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit that you have leads to sanctification,<a id="rfn52006022-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn52006022-1">*</a> and its end is eternal life.<a id="ren52006022-s" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006022-s">s</a> <span id="v52006023" class="ver">23</span>For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.<a id="ren52006023-t" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en52006023-t">t</a></p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../romans/5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Romans 5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Romans 5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../romans/7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Romans 7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Romans 7" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>