Romans 6:1-9:33 Then what shall we say? must we abide in sin, in order that grace may abound?

Godbey⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Then what shall we say? must we abide in sin, in order that grace may abound? ² It could not be so. How shall we, who are dead unto sin, live any longer in it? ³ Whether do you not know, that so many of us as were baptized unto Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? ⁴ Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death: in order that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so must we also walk in newness of life. ⁵ For if we have grown together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection: ⁶ knowing this, that our old man is crucified along with him, in order that the body of sin may be destroyed, that we may no longer serve sin; ⁷ for the one having died has been made free from sin. ⁸ But if we died along with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him: ⁹ knowing that Christ having risen from the dead dies no more; death no longer has dominion over him. ¹⁰ For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he lives, he lives unto God. ¹¹ So you also thus reckon yourselves dead unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ. ¹² Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you should obey the lusts of it: ¹³ neither present your members arms of iniquity unto sin; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members arms of righteousness unto God. ¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace. ¹⁵ What then? can we commit sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? it could not be so. ¹⁶ Do you not know, that to whom you present yourselves servants unto obedience, ye are servants to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness? ¹⁷ But thanks be unto God, that whereas ye were servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the type of teaching into which ye were delivered: ¹⁸ but having been made free from sin, ye became servants unto righteousness. ¹⁹ I speak after the manner of a man on account of the weakness of your carnality. For as ye presented your members as servants unto impurity and lawlessness pursuant to lawlessness, so now present your members servants unto righteousness pursuant to sanctification. ²⁰ For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. ²¹ What fruit then had you at that time in those things in which you are now ashamed? for the end of these things is death. ²² But now having been made free from sin, and having become servants unto God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord, ⁷ ¹ Whether are you ignorant, O brethren, for I speak to those knowing the law, for the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he may live? ² For a woman who is under her husband has been given to her husband by the law so long as he lives; but if the husband may die, she is free from the law of the husband. ³ Then if she may be married to another man, her husband still living, she will be designated an adulteress: but if her husband may die, she is free from the law; and is no adulteress, though she is married to another man. ⁴ So, my brethren, ye are dead to the law through the body of Christ, that ye should be married to another, to him who is risen from the dead, in order that we may bring forth fruit unto God. ⁵ For when we were in carnality, the emotions of sins, which were through the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. ⁶ But now we have been made free from the law, being dead in that in which we were held; so that we serve in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. ⁷ Then what shall we say? is the law sin? It could not be so; but I did not know sin except through the law: for indeed I had not known lusts, unless the law said, Thou shalt not covet. ⁸ But sin, taking occasion through the commandment, did work in me all concupiscence; for without law sin was dead. ⁹ But I was alive at one time without law: but the commandment having come, sin revived, ¹⁰ and I died; and the commandment, which was unto life, the same was unto death. ¹¹ For sin, taking occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it slew me. ¹² So the law is indeed holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good. ¹³ Then did that which is good become death to me? it could not be so: but sin, that it may appear sin, through the good was working out death to me, in order that sin may be exceedingly sinful through the commandment. ¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, having been sold under sin. ¹⁵ For that which I do, I know not: for I do that which I do not will; but I do that which I hate. ¹⁶ But if I do that which I do not will, I consent to the law that it is beautiful; ¹⁷ but now it is no more I that do it, but sin dwelling in me. ¹⁸ For I know that in me, that is, in my carnal mind, there dwells no good thing. For to will is present with me, but to do that which is beautiful is not: ¹⁹ for the good which I will I do not; but the evil which I do not will, that I do. ²⁰ If I do that which I do not will, it is no longer I that do it, but sin dwelling in me. ²¹ Then I find a law, that, to me wishing to do that which is beautiful, that the evil is present with me: ²² for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man; ²³ but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. ²⁴ O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? ²⁵ Thanks be unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord: then therefore with the mind I serve the law of God; but with carnality the law of sin. ⁸ ¹ There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. ² For the law of the Spirit of life has made thee free from the law of sin and of death. ³ For there was an impotency of the law, in which it was weak through depravity, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the sin of depravity and for sin, condemned sin in depravity: ⁴ in order that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to depravity, but according to the spirit. ⁵ For those being in harmony with depravity, do mind the things of depravity, and those in harmony with the Spirit, the things of the Spirit: ⁶ for the mind of depravity is death: and the mind of the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷ Therefore the mind of depravity is enmity toward God: for it is not subordinated to the law of God, for it is not able so to be. ⁸ But those being in depravity are not able to please God. ⁹ But ye are not in depravity, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any one has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, the body is dead so far as sin is concerned; but the Spirit is life so far as righteousness is concerned. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one having raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also create life in your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who dwells in you. ¹² Then therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to depravity, to live according to depravity. ¹³ For if you live according to depravity, you are about to die: but if through the Spirit you kill the practices of the body, you shall live. ¹⁴ For so many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. ¹⁵ For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but you received the Spirit of adoption, in which we cry; Father, Father. ¹⁶ The Spirit Himself witnesses along with our spirit, that we are the children of God. ¹⁷ And if children, indeed heirs; truly heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if we suffer together, in order that we may also be glorified together. ¹⁸ For I reckon that the sufferings of these present times are not worthy to be compared to the glory which is about to be revealed in us. ¹⁹ For the earnest expectation of the creature awaits the revelation of the sons of God. ²⁰ For the creature has been subordinated to mortality, not willingly, but through Him who subordinated it; ²¹ therefore indeed pursuant to hope, the creature itself shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. ²² For we know that all creation groans together and travails together until now; ²³ and not only so, but we ourselves, having the earnest of the Spirit, and we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of sons, the redemption of our body. ²⁴ For we are saved by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for why does any one indeed hope for that which he sees? ²⁵ But if we hope for that which we do not see, we wait for it with patience. ²⁶ And likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmity. For we know not what we should pray for as it behooves us: but the Spirit himself makes intercession with unutterable groanings: ²⁷ but he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession towards God in behalf of the saints. ²⁸ But we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose. ²⁹ Because whom he did foreknow, he did also predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brethren: ³⁰ and whom He did foreknow, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them He also glorified. ³¹ Then what shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² Indeed he who spared not his own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not with him, freely give us all things? ³³ Who will lay anything to the charge of God's elect? ³⁴ It is God who justifies: who is he that condemns? It is Christ who died, and rather who is risen, who is on the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding in our behalf. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As has been written, that We are killed all day for thy sake; we are counted as sheep of the slaughter. ³⁷ But in all these we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that, neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹ nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. ⁹ ¹ I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, ² that there is great sorrow to me and incessant grief to my heart. ³ For I would pray, that I myself might be an offering from Christ; in behalf of my brethren, my kindred according to the flesh: ⁴ who are Israelites, of whom is the adoption of sons, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises: ⁵ of whom are the fathers, and of whom is Christ according to the flesh. Who is over all, God blessed forever: amen. ⁶ But not as that the word of God has been a failure. For these are not all Israel who are of Israel; ⁷ neither are the children all the seed of Abraham; but in Isaac shall thy seed be called; ⁸ that is the children of the flesh the same are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. ⁹ For this is the word of the promise, About this time I will come, and there shall be a son to Sarah. ¹⁰ Not only so; but Rebecca also having cohabitation of one, our father Isaac; ¹¹ for the children not having been born, neither having done anything good or evil, in order that the purpose of God might stand according to election not of works, but of him that calleth, ¹² and it was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger: ¹³ as has been written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. ¹⁴ Then what shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? It could not be so. ¹⁵ For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I do have mercy, and I will commiserate whom I do commiserate. ¹⁶ Then it is not of him that willeth, nor him that runneth, but of God who shows mercy. ¹⁷ For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very thing have I raised you up, that I may show forth my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth. ¹⁸ Then therefore he has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardens. ¹⁹ Then thou wilt say to me, Why does he yet find fault? For who has resisted his will? ²⁰ O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Whether shall the thing formed say to him that formed it. Why did you make me thus? ²¹ Has not the potter the right of the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? ²² But if God, wishing to show forth his indignation and make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of indignation having been perfected unto destruction: ²³ and in order that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he before prepared unto glory? ²⁴ whom he called, even us, not only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles: ²⁵ as he says in Hosea, I will call them my people, who are not my people; and her beloved, who is not beloved: ²⁶ and it shall come to pass, in the place in which it was said to them, You are not my people, there they shall be called the sons of the living God: ²⁷ but Isaiah cries out in behalf of Israel, Though the number of sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved. ²⁸ For perfecting the word and cutting it short, will the Lord do a complete work on the earth: ²⁹ and as Isaiah has before spoken; Unless the Lord of Sabaoth left to us a seed, we would have become as Sodom, and would have been made like unto Gomorrah: ³⁰ Then what shall we say? That the Gentiles, not pursuing righteousness, received righteousness, and the righteousness which is from faith: ³¹ but Israel, following after the law, did not attain unto the law of righteousness. ³² Why? Because they sought it not from faith, but as it were from works: they stumbled over the stone of stumbling, ³³ as has been written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence: and he that believeth on him shall not be ashamed.