6: 2 Be it not so! We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?
6: 3 Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
6: 4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
6: 5 For if we have become 79united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;
79Or, united with the likeness ... with the likeness
6: 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin:
6: 7 for he that hath died is 80justified from sin.
80Or, released Compare Apocrypha Ecclus 26:29 (Gk.); also ch. 7:1.
6: 8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
6: 9 knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more hath dominion over him.
6: 10 For 81the death that he died, he died unto sin once for all: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
81Or, in that death, ... in that life,
6: 11 Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.
6: 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:
6: 13 neither present your members unto sin as 82weapons of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness unto God.
82Or, instruments (both times). Compare 2Co 10:4.
6: 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.
6: 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? Be it not so.
6: 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as 83servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
83Gk. bondservants (both times). and in vss. 17-22.
6: 17 But thanks be to God, 84that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that 85form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;
84Or, that ye were ... but ye became
85Or, form or, pattern Compare Hb 8:5.
6: 18 and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.
6: 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness unto sanctification.
6: 20 For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.
6: 21 What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
6: 22 But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end is eternal life.
6: 23 For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
