Romans 6:9-23

English Standard Version

⁹We know that ^(A)Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; ^(B)death no longer has dominion over him. ¹⁰For the death he died he died to sin, ^(C)once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. ¹¹So you also must consider yourselves ^(D)dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

¹²Let not ^(E)sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. ¹³^(F)Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but ^(G)present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. ¹⁴For ^(H)sin ^(I)will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Slaves to Righteousness

¹⁵What then? ^(J)Are we to sin ^(K)because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! ¹⁶Do you not know that if you present yourselves ^(L)to anyone as obedient slaves,^[a] you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? ¹⁷But ^(M)thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the ^(N)standard of teaching to which you were committed, ¹⁸and, ^(O)having been set free from sin, ^(P)have become slaves of righteousness. ¹⁹^(Q)I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For ^(R)just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members ^(S)as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

²⁰^(T)For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. ²¹^(U)But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things ^(V)of which you are now ashamed? ^(W)For the end of those things is death. ²²But now that you ^(X)have been set free from sin and ^(Y)have become slaves of God, ^(Z)the fruit you get leads to sanctification and ^(AA)its end, eternal life. ²³^(AB)For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.