Poslanica Rimljanima 6

Snaga grijeha je slomljena

1 Što reći? Zar da i dalje griješimo kako bi nam Bog mogao iskazivati sve više milosti praštanja?2 Nipošto! Umrli smo grijehu, pa kako da onda i dalje živimo u njemu?3 Ili ne znate da smo mi, koji smo krštenjem postali jedno s Kristom Isusom, i umrli skupa s njim?

4 Jer umrli smo i pokopani s Kristom u krštenju. I kao što je Krist ustao od mrtvih slavnom Očevom moći, tako i mi sada možemo živjeti novim životom.
5 Kao što smo s njim ujedinjeni u njegovoj smrti, također ćemo i uskrsnuti poput njega.6 Naš je stari čovjek raspet s Isusom kako bi grijeh izgubio vlast nad našim životom. Više ne robujemo grijehu7 jer smo, umrijevši s Kristom, od grijeha opravdani.8 A budući da smo s Kristom umrli, znamo da ćemo s njime i živjeti,9 jer Krist je ustao od mrtvih i više nikad neće umrijeti. Nad njime smrt više nema nikakve moći.10 Umro je jednom zauvijek da slomi moć grijeha, ali sada zauvijek živi Bogu na slavu.

11 Tako i vi sebe smatrajte mrtvima za grijeh, a živima Bogu na slavu kroz Isusa Krista.
12 Ne dopustite da grijeh i dalje gospodari vašim smrtnim tijelom i ne popuštajte grešnim željama.13 Nemojte da koji ud vašega tijela postane oruđem zla tako što ćete ga uporabiti za grijeh. Umjesto toga se posve predajte Bogu jer ste dobili novi život. Neka cijelo vaše tijelo bude oruđe koje će činiti dobro Bogu na slavu.

14 Grijeh više neće nad vama gospodariti jer više niste podložni Zakonu koji vas čini robovima grijeha. Oslobođeni ste Božjom milošću!

Sloboda za poslušnost Bogu

15 Ako nas je Božja milost oslobodila Zakona, znači li to da i dalje možemo griješiti? Nipošto!16 Ne shvaćate li da sami birate sebi gospodara? Možete izabrati grijeh, koji vodi u smrt, ili možete izabrati poslušnost Bogu i da vas on prihvati kao pravedne.17 Hvala Bogu! Nekoć ste bili robovi grijehu, ali sada ste svim srcem prihvatili novo učenje koje vam je Bog dao.

18 Slobodni ste od grijeha kojemu ste prije služili i postali ste robovima pravednosti.
19 Govorim vam služeći se prispodobom o robovima i gospodarima jer je to lako razumjeti. Prije ste bili robovi nečistoće i bezakonja. Sada budite robovi pravednosti da biste bili sveti.20 Dok ste bili robovi grijeha, bili ste slobodni od pravednosti.21 A čime je to urodilo? Ne dobrim, jer se sada sramite onoga što ste činili, što vodi u vječnu smrt.22 Ali sada ste oslobođeni od snage grijeha i postali ste Božjim robovima te činite ono što vodi svetosti i vječnome životu u našemu Gospodinu Isusu Kristu.

23 Jer plaća za grijeh je smrt, a Božji je dar vječni život u našemu Gospodinu Isusu Kristu.

Romans 6

The Believer’s Freedom from Sin’s Domination

1 What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase?2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?3 Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

4 Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.t
5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.t6 We know thatt our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us,t so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

7 (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)s
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.9 We knowt that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to diet again; death no longer has mastery over him.10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

11 So you too consider yourselvess dead to sin, butt alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,13 and do not present your members to sin as instrumentst to be used for unrighteousness,t but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instrumentst to be used for righteousness.

14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness

15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!16 Do you not know that if you present yourselvest as obedient slaves,t you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?t17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyedt from the heart that patternt of teaching you were entrusted to,18 and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.19 (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.)ts For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.
21 So what benefitt did you then reapt from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.22 But now, freedt from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefitt leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

23 For the payofft of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.