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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 Amplified 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="../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="../">AMP</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/romans/6.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Believers Are Dead to Sin, Alive to God</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>What shall we say [to all this]? Should we continue in sin <i>and</i> practice sin as a habit so that [God’s gift of] <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>grace may increase <i>and</i> overflow? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Certainly not! How can we, the very ones who died to sin, <i>continue to</i> live in it any longer? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Or are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>We have therefore been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory <i>and</i> power of the Father, we too might walk <i>habitually</i> in newness of life [abandoning our old ways]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For if we have become one with Him [permanently united] in the likeness of His death, we will also certainly be [one with Him and share fully] <i>in the likeness</i> of His resurrection. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>We know that our old <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>self [our human nature without the Holy Spirit] was nailed to the cross with <i>Him,</i> in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For the person who has died [with Christ] has been freed from [the power of] sin. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live [together] with Him, <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>because we know [the self-evident truth] that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For the death that He died, He died to sin [ending its power and paying the sinner’s debt] once and for all; and the life that He lives, He lives to [glorify] God [in unbroken fellowship with Him]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Even so, consider yourselves to be dead to sin [and your relationship to it broken], but alive to God [in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts <i>and</i> passions. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Do not go on offering members of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness. But offer yourselves to God [in a decisive act] as those alive [raised] from the dead [to a new life], and your members [all of your abilities--sanctified, set apart] as instruments of righteousness [yielded] to God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For sin will no longer be a master over you, since you are not under Law [as slaves], but under [unmerited] grace [as recipients of God’s favor and mercy]. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>What then [are we to conclude]? Shall we sin because we are not under Law, but under [God’s] grace? Certainly not! <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Do you not know that when you <i>continually</i> offer yourselves to someone to do his will, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, either [slaves] of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness (right standing with God)? <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But thank God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient with all your heart to the standard of teaching in which you were instructed <i>and</i> to which you were committed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And having been set free from sin, you have become the slaves of righteousness [of conformity to God’s will and purpose]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I am speaking in [familiar] human terms because of your natural limitations [your spiritual immaturity]. For just as you presented your bodily members as slaves to impurity and to [moral] lawlessness, leading to further lawlessness, so now offer your members [your abilities, your talents] as slaves to righteousness, leading to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>sanctification [that is, being set apart for God’s purpose]. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness [you had no desire to conform to God’s will]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So what benefit did you get at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? [None!] For the outcome of those things is death! <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But now since you have been set free from sin and have become [willing] slaves to God, you have your benefit, resulting in sanctification [being made holy and set apart for God’s purpose], and the outcome [of this] is eternal life. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God [that is, His remarkable, overwhelming gift of grace to believers] is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Grace justifies believers, making them free of the guilt of sin, blameless, so that they may have eternal life.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> “Baptize” is a transliteration of the Greek word <i>baptizo,</i> which means to submerge an object into liquid. In this passage Christ becomes the liquid, metaphorically, and those who are baptized into Him remain in Him forever and benefit from His experiences, including His death. The best news is that Jesus was resurrected, so believers will also experience resurrection (those who are alive when Christ returns will experience a physical transformation). But even now believers experience a kind of resurrection in that they live new lives (as Paul says, “walk in newness of life”) in a wonderful new relationship with God and their fellow believers.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> Gr <i>anthropos,</i> i.e. man, person.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> There are three basic kinds of sanctification in the NT: (1) Positional sanctification is based on the death of Christ. Every believer is a saint and is holy before God. The believer is “set apart for God” and in some instances “set apart for God’s purpose” (Heb 10:10, 14, 29); (2) Practical sanctification is a progressive process and means “growing in righteous living” as the believer matures spiritually (Rom 6:13; 1 Thess 5:23; 1 Pet 1:16); (3) Ultimate sanctification is that which is to come when the believer stands before God (Eph 5:26, 27).<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <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="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>