What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?
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Romans 6
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By no means. Since we have died to sin, how can we still live in it?
Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
συνετάφημεν οὖν αὐτῷ διὰ τοῦ βαπτίσματος εἰς τὸν θάνατον, ἵνα ὥσπερ ἠγέρθη Χριστὸς ἐκ νεκρῶν διὰ τῆς δόξης τοῦ πατρός, οὕτως καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐν καινότητι ζωῆς περιπατήσωμεν.
Therefore, we were buried with him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of life.
For if we have been united in the likeness of his death, we will also be in the likeness of the resurrection.
τοῦτο γινώσκοντες ὅτι ὁ παλαιὸς ἡμῶν ἄνθρωπος συνεσταυρώθη, ἵνα καταργηθῇ τὸ σῶμα τῆς ἁμαρτίας, τοῦ μηκέτι δουλεύειν ἡμᾶς τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ,
Knowing this, that our old self was crucified so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be enslaved to sin,
For the one who has died is justified from sin.
But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, no longer dies, death no longer has dominion over him.
For the one who died, died to sin once for all; but the one who lives, lives to God.
So also consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body to obey its desires,
μηδὲ παριστάνετε τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν ὅπλα ἀδικίας τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, ἀλλὰ παραστήσατε ἑαυτοὺς τῷ θεῷ ὡσεὶ ἐκ νεκρῶν ζῶντας καὶ τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν ὅπλα δικαιοσύνης τῷ θεῷ.
Do not present the members of your body as weapons of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and the members of your body as weapons of righteousness to God.
For sin will not have dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not.
οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι ᾧ παριστάνετε ἑαυτοὺς δούλους εἰς ὑπακοήν, δοῦλοί ἐστε ᾧ ὑπακούετε, ἤτοι ἁμαρτίας εἰς θάνατον ἢ ὑπακοῆς εἰς δικαιοσύνην;
Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to the one you obey, either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?
χάρις δὲ τῷ θεῷ ὅτι ἦτε δοῦλοι τῆς ἁμαρτίας ὑπηκούσατε δὲ ἐκ καρδίας εἰς ὃν παρεδόθητε τύπον διδαχῆς,
But thanks be to God that you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart the form of teaching to which you were delivered.
But having been set free from sin, you were enslaved to righteousness.
ἀνθρώπινον λέγω διὰ τὴν ἀσθένειαν τῆς σαρκὸς ὑμῶν· ὥσπερ γὰρ παρεστήσατε τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν δοῦλα τῇ ἀκαθαρσίᾳ καὶ τῇ ἀνομίᾳ εἰς τὴν ἀνομίαν, οὕτως νῦν παραστήσατε τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν δοῦλα τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ εἰς ἁγιασμόν.
I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
What fruit did you then have from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
νυνὶ δέ, ἐλευθερωθέντες ἀπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας δουλωθέντες δὲ τῷ θεῷ, ἔχετε τὸν καρπὸν ὑμῶν εἰς ἁγιασμόν, τὸ δὲ τέλος ζωὴν αἰώνιον.
But now, having been set free from sin and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit for sanctification, and the end is eternal life.
τὰ γὰρ ὀψώνια τῆς ἁμαρτίας θάνατος, τὸ δὲ χάρισμα τοῦ θεοῦ ζωὴ αἰώνιος ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ κυρίῳ ἡμῶν.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.