Romans 6:8-23

Darby Translation

⁸ Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,

⁹ knowing that Christ having been raised up from among [the] dead dies no more: death has dominion over him no more.

¹⁰ For in that he has died, he has died to sin once for all; but in that he lives, he lives to God.

¹¹ So also *ye*, reckon yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

¹² Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.

¹³ Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among [the] dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God.

¹⁴ For sin shall not have dominion over *you*, for ye are not under law but under grace.

¹⁵ What then? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought.

¹⁶ Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

¹⁷ But thanks [be] to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye were instructed.

¹⁸ Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.

¹⁹ I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh. For even as ye have yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness.

²⁰ For when ye were bondmen of sin ye were free from righteousness.

²¹ What fruit therefore had ye *then* in the things of which ye are *now* ashamed? for the end of *them* [is] death.

²² But *now*, having got your freedom from sin, and having become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life.

²³ For the wages of sin [is] death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.