OET-RV ROM Chapter 6

6 So should we continue disobeying so that more of God’s generosity will be displayed? 2 Not on your life! We who died to sin, how could we go back to living in it? 3 Or didn’t you realise that when we were immersed into Messiah Yeshua, we were immersed into his death? 4 [ref]Therefore we were buried with him through the immersion into death, so that just as Messiah was brought back to life by the father’s power, so too we can live a new life. 5 If we’ve taken part in the likeness of his death, then we’ll also take part in the resurrection, 6 knowing that the old personality was executed with him so that sin would have no more power over our bodies, and hence we no longer need to serve it, 7 because the personality that’s died has been declared free from sin. 8 So if we died with Messiah, we also believe that we’ll live with him, 9 knowing that now that Messiah has come back to life from the dead, he won’t die again—death has no more power over him. 10 When he died, he died to sin once and for all, but now that he lives, he lives to please God. 11 So too, you should consider yourselves dead to sin, and at the same time, alive to God in Messiah Yeshua.

12 So therefore don’t let sin rule over your mortal bodies in such a way that you’re submitting to its lusts. 13 Don’t use any parts of your bodies to sin, as if they’re weapons of disobedience, but instead present yourselves to God as if you came back to life from the dead, and use all your body parts for God, as if they’re weapons of righteousness, 14 so that sin won’t take control of you—because you’re not under law, but under generosity.

15 What could that mean? That we can sin freely because we’re not under law but under generosity? Not on your life! 16 Don’t you know who you’re presenting yourselves to as obedient slaves? Yes, whoever you submit to, you’re their slaves—either slaves of sin that leads to death, or slaves of obedience that leads to righteousness. 17 But be thankful to God that although you were slaves to sin, your hearts submitted to what was taught, 18 and so, having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19 I’m speaking from a human perspective because of your human weakness. Just as you previously used parts of your bodies as slaves to impurity and lawlessness, leading down to further lawlessness, so now present your body parts as slaves to righteousness, leading up to holiness.

20 When you were slaves of sin, you were immune to righteousness, 21 and so what was the fruit you had back then which you’re now ashamed of? The end result of that lifestyle is death. 22 But now that you’re free from slavery to sin, and are God’s slaves instead, you bear the fruit of holiness, and the end result of that is living forever, 23 because the wages of sin are death, but God gives eternal life as a gift through our master Yeshua Messiah.