Romans 6:1-9:33 What, then, shall we declare? That we may be persisting in sin that grace should be increasing?

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ What, then, shall we declare? That we may be persisting in sin that grace should be increasing? ² May it not be coming to that! We, who died to sin, how shall we still be living in it? ³ Or are you ignorant that whoever are baptized into Christ Jesus, are baptized into His death? ⁴ We, then, were entombed together with Him through baptism into death, that, even as Christ was roused from among the dead through the glory of the Father, thus we also should be walking in newness of life." ⁵ For if we have become planted together in the likeness of His death, nevertheless we shall be of the resurrection also, ⁶ knowing this, that our old humanity was crucified together with Him, that the body of Sin may be nullified, for us by no means to be still slaving for Sin, ⁷ for one who dies has been justified from Sin. ⁸ Now if we died together with Christ, we believe that we shall be living together with Him also, ⁹ having perceived that Christ, being roused from among the dead, is no longer dying. Death is lording it over Him no longer, ¹⁰ for in that He died, He died to Sin once for all time, yet in that He is living, He is living to God." ¹¹ Thus you also, be reckoning yourselves to be dead, indeed, to Sin, yet living to God in Christ Jesus, our Lord." ¹² Let not Sin, then, be reigning in your mortal body, for you to be obeying its lusts." ¹³ Nor yet be presenting your members, as implements of injustice, to Sin, but present yourselves to God as if alive from among the dead, and your members as implements of righteousness to God." ¹⁴ For Sin shall not be lording it over you, for you are not under law, but under grace." ¹⁵ What then? Should we be sinning, seeing that we are not under law, but under grace? May it not be coming to that!" ¹⁶ Are you not aware that to whom you are presenting yourselves as slaves for obedience, his slaves you are, whom you are obeying, whether of Sin for death, or of Obedience for righteousness? ¹⁷ Now thanks be to God that you were slaves of Sin, yet you obey from the heart the type of teaching to which you were given over." ¹⁸ Now, being freed from Sin, you are enslaved to Righteousness." ¹⁹ As a man am I saying this, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For even as you present your members as slaves to Uncleanness and to Lawlessness for lawlessness, thus now present your members as slaves to Righteousness for holiness." ²⁰ For when you were slaves of Sin, you were free as to Righteousness." ²¹ What fruit, then, had you then? - of which you are now ashamed, for, indeed, the consummation of those things is death." ²² Yet, now, being freed from Sin, yet enslaved to God, you have your fruit for holiness. Now the consummation is life eonian." ²³ For the ration of Sin is death, yet the gracious gift of God is life eonian, in Christ Jesus, our Lord." ⁷ ¹ Or are you ignorant, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know law), that the law is lording it over a man for as much time as he is living? ² For a woman in wedlock is bound to a living man by law. Yet if the man should be dying, she is exempt from the law of the man." ³ Consequently, then, while the man is living, she will be styled an adulteress if she should be becoming another man's, yet, if the man should be dying, she is free from the law, being no adulteress on becoming another man's." ⁴ So that, my brethren, you also were put to death to the law through the body of Christ, for you to become Another's, Who is roused from among the dead, that we should be bearing fruit to God." ⁵ For, when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were through the law, operated in our members to be bearing fruit to Death." ⁶ Yet now we were exempted from the law, dying in that in which we were retained, so that it is for us to be slaving in newness of spirit and not in oldness of letter." ⁷ What, then, shall we declare? That the law is sin? May it not be coming to that! But sin I knew not except through law. For besides, I had not been aware of coveting except the law said, "You shall not be coveting." ⁸ Now Sin, getting an incentive through the precept, produces in me all manner of coveting. For apart from law Sin is dead." ⁹ Now I lived, apart from law, once, yet at the coming of the precept Sin revives. Yet I died, ¹⁰ and it was found that, to me, the precept for life, this is for death." ¹¹ For Sin, getting an incentive through the precept, deludes me, and through it, kills me." ¹² So that the law, indeed, is holy, and the precept holy and just and good." ¹³ Became good, then, death to me? May it not be coming to that! But Sin, that it may be appearing Sin, is producing death to me through good, that Sin may become an inordinate sinner through the precept." ¹⁴ For we are aware that the law is spiritual, yet I am fleshly, having been disposed of under Sin." ¹⁵ For what I am effecting I know not, for not what I will, this I am putting into practice, but what I am hating, this I am doing." ¹⁶ Now if what I am not willing, this I am doing, I am conceding that the law is ideal." ¹⁷ Yet now it is no longer I who am effecting it, but Sin making its home in me." ¹⁸ For I am aware that good is not making its home in me (that is, in my flesh), for to will is lying beside me, yet to be effecting the ideal is not." ¹⁹ For it is not the good that I will that I am doing, but the evil that I am not willing, this I am putting into practice." ²⁰ Now if what I am not willing, this I am doing, it is no longer I who am effecting it, but Sin which is making its home in me." ²¹ Consequently, I am finding the law that, at my willing to be doing the ideal, the evil is lying beside me." ²² For I am gratified with the law of God as to the man within, ²³ yet I am observing a different law in my members, warring with the law of my mind, and leading me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members." ²⁴ A wretched man am I! What will rescue me out of this body of death? Grace! ²⁵ I thank God, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Consequently, then, I myself, with the mind, indeed, am slaving for God's law, yet with the flesh for Sin's law." ⁸ ¹ Nothing, consequently, is now condemnation to those in Christ Jesus. Not according to flesh are they walking, but according to spirit, ² for the spirit's law of life in Christ Jesus frees you from the law of sin and death. ³ For what was impossible to the law, in which it was infirm through the flesh, did God, sending His own Son in the likeness of sin's flesh and concerning sin, He condemns sin in the flesh, ⁴ that the just requirement of the law may be fulfilled in us, who are not walking in accord with flesh, but in accord with spirit." ⁵ For those who are in accord with flesh are disposed to that which is of the flesh, yet those who are in accord with spirit to that which is of the spirit." ⁶ For the disposition of the flesh is death, yet the disposition of the spirit is life and peace, ⁷ because the disposition of the flesh is enmity to God, for it is not subject to the law of God, for neither is it able." ⁸ Now those who are in flesh are not able to please God. ⁹ Yet you are not in flesh, but in spirit, if so be that God's spirit is making its home in you. Now if anyone has not Christ's spirit, this one is not His." ¹⁰ Now if Christ is in you, the body, indeed, is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is life because of righteousness." ¹¹ Now if the spirit of Him Who rouses Jesus from among the dead is making its home in you, He Who rouses Christ Jesus from among the dead will also be vivifying your mortal bodies because of His spirit making its home in you." ¹² Consequently, then, brethren, debtors are we, not to the flesh, to be living in accord with flesh, ¹³ for if you are living in accord with flesh, you are about to be dying. Yet if, in spirit, you are putting the practices of the body to death, you will be living." ¹⁴ For whoever are being led by God's spirit, these are sons of God." ¹⁵ For you did not get slavery's spirit to fear again, but you got the spirit of sonship, in which we are crying, "Abba, Father!" ¹⁶ The spirit itself is testifying together with our spirit that we are children of God. ¹⁷ Yet if children, enjoyers also of an allotment, enjoyers, indeed, of an allotment from God, yet joint enjoyers of Christ's allotment, if so be that we are suffering together, that we should be glorified together also." ¹⁸ For I am reckoning that the sufferings of the current era do not deserve the glory about to be revealed for us. ¹⁹ For the premonition of the creation is awaiting the unveiling of the sons of God. ²⁰ For to vanity was the creation subjected, not voluntarily, but because of Him Who subjects it, in expectation" ²¹ that the creation itself, also, shall be freed from the slavery of corruption into the glorious freedom of the children of God." ²² For we are aware that the entire creation is groaning and travailing together until now. ²³ Yet not only so, but we ourselves also, who have the firstfruit of the spirit, we ourselves also, are groaning in ourselves, awaiting the sonship, the deliverance of our body." ²⁴ For to expectation were we saved. Now expectation, being observed, is not expectation, for what anyone is observing, why is he expecting it also? ²⁵ Now, if we are expecting what we are not observing, we are awaiting it with endurance." ²⁶ Now, similarly, the spirit also is aiding our infirmity, for what we should be praying for, to accord with what must be, we are not aware, but the spirit itself is pleading for us with inarticulate groanings." ²⁷ Now He Who is searching the hearts is aware what is the disposition of the spirit, for in accord with God is it pleading for the saints." ²⁸ Now we are aware that God is working all together for the good of those who are loving God, who are called according to the purpose" ²⁹ that, whom He foreknew, He designates beforehand, also, to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be Firstborn among many brethren." ³⁰ Now whom He designates beforehand, these He calls also, and whom He calls, these He justifies also; now whom He justifies, these He glorifies also." ³¹ What then, shall we declare to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? ³² Surely, He Who spares not His own Son, but gives Him up for us all, how shall He not, together with Him, also, be graciously granting us all? ³³ Who will be indicting God's chosen ones? God, the Justifier? ³⁴ Who is the Condemner? Christ Jesus, the One dying, yet rather being roused, Who is also at God's right hand, Who is pleading also for our sakes? ³⁵ What shall be separating us from the love of God in Christ Jesus? Affliction, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? ³⁶ According as it is written that "On Thy account we are being put to death the whole day, We are reckoned as sheep for slaughter." ³⁷ Nay! in all these we are more than conquering through Him Who loves us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor messengers, nor sovereignties, nor the present, nor what is impending, nor powers, ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord." ⁹ ¹ The truth am I telling in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifying together with me in holy spirit, ² 2 That my sorrow is great, and unintermittent pain is in my heart -" ³ for I myself wished to be anathema from Christ - for my brethren, my relatives according to the flesh, ⁴ who are Israelites, whose is the sonship and the glory and the covenants and the legislation and the divine service and the promises;" ⁵ whose are the fathers, and out of whom is the Christ according to the flesh, Who is over all, God be blessed for the eons. Amen!" ⁶ Now it is not such as that the word of God has lapsed, for not all those out of Israel, these are Israel;" ⁷ neither that Abraham's seed are all children, but "In Isaac shall your seed be called." ⁸ That is, that the children of the flesh, not these are the children of God, but the children of the promise is He reckoning for the seed." ⁹ For the word of the promise is this: At "this seasonI shall come "and there will be for Sarah a son." ¹⁰ Yet, not only so, but Rebecca also is having her bed of one, Isaac, our father." ¹¹ For, not as yet being born, nor putting into practice anything good or bad, that the purpose of God may be remaining as a choice, not out of acts, but of Him Who is calling, ¹² it was declared to her that "The greater shall be slaving for the inferior, ¹³ According as it is written, "Jacob I love, yet Esau I hate." ¹⁴ What, then, shall we be declaring? Not that there is injustice with God? May it not be coming to that!" ¹⁵ For to Moses He is saying, "I shall be merciful to whomever I may be merciful, and I shall be pitying whomever I may be pitying." ¹⁶ Consequently, then, it is not of him who is willing, nor of him who is racing, but of God, the Merciful." ¹⁷ For the scripture is saying to Pharaoh that "For this selfsame thing I rouse you up, so that I should be displaying in you My power, and so that My name should be published in the entire earth." ¹⁸ Consequently, then, to whom He will, He is merciful, yet whom He will, He is hardening." ¹⁹ You will be protesting to me, then, "Why, then, is He still blaming? for who has withstood His intention? ²⁰ O man! who are you, to be sure, who are answering again to God? That which is molded will not protest to the molder, "Why do you make me thus? ²¹ Or has not the potter the right over the clay, out of the same kneading to make one vessel, indeed, for honor, yet one for dishonor? ²² Now if God, wanting to display His indignation and to make His powerful doings known, carries, with much patience, the vessels of indignation, adapted for destruction, ²³ it is that He should also be making known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He makes ready before for glory -" ²⁴ us, whom He calls also, not only out of the Jews, but out of the nations also." ²⁵ As He is saying in Hosea also: I shall be calling those who are not My people "My people,And she who is not beloved "Beloved, ²⁶ And it shall be, in the place where it was declared to them, 'Not My people are you,'There "they shall be called 'sons of the living God.'" ²⁷ Now Isaiah is crying over Israel, If the number of the sons of Israel should be as the sand of the sea, the residue shall be saved, ²⁸ for "a conclusive and concise accounting the Lord will be doing on the earth." ²⁹ And according as Isaiah declared before, "Except the Lord of hosts conserved us a seed, As Sodom would we become, And to Gomorrah would we be likened." ³⁰ What, then, shall we be declaring? That the nations who are not pursuing righteousness overtook righteousness, yet a righteousness which is out of faith." ³¹ Yet Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, into a law of righteousness does not outstrip." ³² Wherefore? Seeing that it is not out of faith, but as out of law works, they stumble on the stumbling stone, ³³ according as it is written: Lo! I am laying in Zion a Stumbling Stone and a Snare Rock, And the one believing on Him shall not be disgraced."