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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 MSB</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="../">MSB</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="/msb/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">Majority Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/heb/romans/6.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Dead to Sin, Alive to God<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_corinthians/4.htm#7">2 Corinthians 4:7–18</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase? <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer? <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life. <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For anyone who has died has been freed from sin. <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has dominion over Him. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><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 it in its desires.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">The Wages of Sin<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not! <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness? <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life. <span class="reftext"><a href="/romans/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For the wages of sin is death,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> CT does not include <i>our Lord</i>.<br><span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> CT <i>so that you obey its desires</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> See <i>Proverbs 10:16</i><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, Majrity Standard Bible, MSB is produced in cooperation with <a href=//biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a>, <a href=//discoverybible.com>Discovery Bible</a>, <a href=//openbible.com>OpenBible.com</a>, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. 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