Romans 6:1-9:33

Sawyer^{(i) 1 (4:1)} WHAT shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that the grace may abound? ² By no means. How shall we who died to sin any longer live in it? ³ Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized in Christ were baptized in his death? ⁴ We have been buried therefore with him through baptism in death, that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life. ⁵ For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall much more be of his resurrection; ⁶ knowing this that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer serve sin; ⁷ for he that died was justified from sin. ⁸ And if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him; ⁹ knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no longer a lordship over him. ¹⁰ For [the death] which he died, he died to sin once; but [the life] which he lives, he lives to God. ¹¹ So also account yourselves dead indeed to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus. ^{12 (4:2)} Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to obey its desires, ¹³ neither present your members as instruments of wickedness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. ¹⁴ For sin shall not have a Lordship over you; for you are not under the law but under the grace. ^{15 (4:3)} What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under the grace? By no means. ¹⁶ Know you not that to whom you present yourselves servants for obedience, his servants you are whom you obey, whether of sin in death or of obedience in righteousness? ¹⁷ But thanks be to God that you were servants of sin, but obeyed from the heart the form of teaching in which you were instructed, ¹⁸ and having become free from sin you served righteousness. ¹⁹ I speak after the manner of men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as you presented your members servants to impurity and to wickedness in wickedness, so now present your members servants to righteousness in sanctification. ²⁰ For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. ²¹ What fruit had you therefore then in things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of them is death. ²² But now having been made free from sin and made servants to God, you have your fruit in sanctification, and the end eternal life. ²³ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life by Christ Jesus our Lord. ^{7 1 (5:1)} ARE you ignorant, brothers, for I speak to them who understand law, that the law has authority over a man as long as he lives? ² For a woman under a husband is bound by law to a living husband; but if the husband has died she is released from the law of the husband. ³ Therefore while the husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she is married to another man; but if the husband has died, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if married to another man. ⁴ So, my brothers, you have also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you should be married to another, to him that was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. ⁵ For when we were in the flesh, the sinful affections operated through the law in our members to bear fruit to death; ⁶ but now we are released from the law by which we were held having died, that we should serve [God] in newness of spirit, not in the old age of a writing. ^{7 (5:2)} What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. On the contrary I knew not sin except through the law; for I had not known inordinate desire, unless the law had said, You shall not desire inordinately. ⁸ But Sin having taken occasion through the commandment wrought in me every inordinate desire; for without the law sin was dead. ^{9 (5:3)} And I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died, ¹⁰ and the commandment which was for life was found to be for death. ¹¹ For sin having taken occasion through the commandment deceived me, and through it killed me. ¹² The law therefore is holy, and the commandment holy and righteous and good. ¹³ Did then that which is good become death to me? By no means, but sin; that sin might be made manifest, producing death to me through that which is good, that sin might become exceedingly sinful through the commandment. ¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. ¹⁵ For what I do this I approve not; for I do not what I wish, but what I hate, this I do. ¹⁶ But if what I wish not this I do, I consent to the law that it is good; ¹⁷ and now I no longer do it, but the sin that dwells in me. ¹⁸ For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to do the good is not; ¹⁹ for the good which I wish I do not, but the evil which I wish not this I do. ^{20 (5:4)} But if what I wish not this I do, I no longer do it, but sin which dwells in me. ²¹ I find therefore the law, that when I wish to do good evil is present with me; ²² for I consent to the law of God as to my inward man, [my soul], ²³ but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members. ²⁴ Miserable man that I am; who will deliver me from the body of this death? ²⁵ Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord; therefore I myself with the mind serve the law of God, and with the flesh the law of sin. ^{8 1 (6:1)} THERE is no condemnation therefore to those in Christ Jesus; ² for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and death. ³ For what the law could not do because it was weak through the flesh, God having sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned the sin in the flesh, ⁴ that the righteous ordinance of the law may be performed by us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. ⁵ For they who are according to the flesh mind the things of the flesh, but they who are according to the spirit the things of the spirit; ⁶ for the minding of the flesh is death, but the minding of the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷ Because the minding of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God; for it can not be. ⁸ And they that are in the flesh cannot please God. ⁹ But you are not in the flesh but in the spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. And if any man has not the spirit of Christ he is not his. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the spirit is life on account of righteousness. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised Christ from the dead shall make alive your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwells in you. ^{12 (6:2)} Therefore, brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh. ¹³ For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the spirit you kill the deeds of the body, you shall live. ¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are sons of God. ¹⁵ For you received not the spirit of servitude again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry; Abba, Father. ¹⁶ The Spirit itself is a co-witness with our spirits that we are children of God. ¹⁷ And if children, [we are] also heirs, heirs indeed of God and co-heirs with Christ, if we suffer with him that we may also be glorified with him. ^{18 (6:3)} For I think that the sufferings of the present time are of no account in comparison with the glory to be revealed in us. ¹⁹ For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the revelation of the sons of God. ²⁰ For the creation was subjected to a perishable condition, not willingly, but by him that subjected it, in hope ²¹ that the same creation will be delivered from the servitude of destruction and [brought] into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. ²² For we know that all the creation groans and is in pain till now; ²³ and not only it, but we ourselves also who have the first fruit of the Spirit, even ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our bodies. ²⁴ For we are saved by hope; but a hope that is seen is not a hope; for why does one hope for what he sees? ²⁵ but if we hope for what we see not, we wait for it with patience. ^{26 (6:4)} And in like manner also the Spirit helps our weakness. For we know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit makes intercession for us with groanings unutterable; ²⁷ and he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because it makes intercession with God for the saints. ²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to [his] purpose. ²⁹ For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he may be a first-born among many brothers; ³⁰ and whom he predestinated them he also called; and whom he called them he also justified; and whom he justified them he also glorified. ^{31 (6:5)} What shall we say then to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? ³² He who spared not his Son, but gave him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things? ³³ Who will bring a charge against God's elect? It is God that justifies; ³⁴ who is he that condemns? Is it Christ who died, and still more, who has also been raised, and who is on the right hand of God, and who makes intercession for us? ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall affliction or distress, persecution or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? ³⁶ As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter. ³⁷ But in all these things we more than conquer, through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, ³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. ^{9 1 (7:1)} I SPEAK the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness with the Holy Spirit, ² that I have great grief and continual pain in my heart; ³ for I have wished that I was myself accursed from Christ for my brothers, my kindred according to the flesh, ⁴ who are Israelites, whose are the adoption and the glory, and the covenants and the giving of the law, and the service, and the promises, ⁵ whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ, according to the flesh. He who is over all is God blessed forever, amen. ⁶ Not that the word of God has failed of being accomplished. For all are not Israel who are of Israel; ⁷ neither, because they are a posterity of Abraham, are they all children; but in Isaac shall your posterity be called; ⁸ that is, the children of the flesh are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are accounted the posterity. ⁹ For this was the word of promise; According to this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son. ¹⁰ And not only this, but Rebecca also being with child by one, by our father Isaac— ¹¹ for the children not yet being born, nor having done any thing good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might continue, not of works but of him that calls,— ¹² it was said to her that the older shall serve the younger; ¹³ as it is written; Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated. ^{14 (7:2)} What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? By no means. ¹⁵ For he says to Moses, I will be merciful to him to whom I may be merciful, and I will compassionate him whom I may compassionate. ¹⁶ Therefore, it is not of him that wills nor of him that runs, but of God that exercises mercy. ¹⁷ For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, For this same cause I raised you up, to show my power in you, and that my name may be declared in all the earth. ¹⁸ He therefore has mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardens. ¹⁹ You will say to me then, Why then does he yet find fault? for who has resisted his will? ²⁰ Yes indeed, O man, who are you that reply against God? Shall the work say to him that made it, Why did you make me thus? ²¹ or has not the potter a right, in respect to the clay, to make of the same mass one vessel to honor and another to dishonor? ²² But if God wishing to show his wrath and to make known his power endured with much long suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, ²³ and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he before prepared for glory, ²⁴ whom he also called, us not of the Jews only but also of the gentiles, ²⁵ as he says also in Hosea, I will call them that were not my people, my people, and her that was not beloved, beloved, ²⁶ and in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they shall be called children of the living God. ²⁷ But Isaiah cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel is as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved; ²⁸ for he executes and performs his word in righteousness, for a finished work will the Lord perform on the earth. ²⁹ As also Isaiah said before, Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a posterity, we should have been like Sodom, and should have resembled Gomorrah. ^{30 (7:3)} What shall we say then? That nations who did not pursue righteousness attained a righteousness, but the righteousness which is by faith; ³¹ but Israel who pursued the law of righteousness did not attain to the law of righteousness. ³² For what reason? Because they are not of faith, but as it were of works of the law; for they stumbled at the stone of stumbling, ³³ as it is written; Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and he that believes on him shall not be ashamed.