羅馬書 6

在罪上死，在基督裏活

1 這樣，怎麼說呢？我們可以仍在罪中、叫恩典顯多嗎？ 2 斷乎不可！我們在罪上死了的人豈可仍在罪中活著呢？ 3 豈不知我們這受洗歸入基督耶穌的人是受洗歸入他的死嗎？ 4 所以，我們藉著洗禮歸入死，和他一同埋葬，原是叫我們一舉一動有新生的樣式，像基督藉著父的榮耀從死裏復活一樣。 5 我們若在他死的形狀上與他聯合，也要在他復活的形狀上與他聯合； 6 因為知道我們的舊人和他同釘十字架，使罪身滅絕，叫我們不再作罪的奴僕； 7 因為已死的人是脫離了罪。 8 我們若是與基督同死，就信必與他同活。 9 因為知道基督既從死裏復活，就不再死，死也不再作他的主了。 10 他死是向罪死了，只有一次；他活是向上帝活著。 11 這樣，你們向罪也當看自己是死的；向上帝在基督耶穌裏，卻當看自己是活的。

12 所以，不要容罪在你們必死的身上作王，使你們順從身子的私慾。 13 也不要將你們的肢體獻給罪作不義的器具；倒要像從死裏復活的人，將自己獻給上帝，並將肢體作義的器具獻給上帝。 14 罪必不能作你們的主；因你們不在律法之下，乃在恩典之下。

義的奴僕

15 這卻怎麼樣呢？我們在恩典之下，不在律法之下，就可以犯罪嗎？斷乎不可！ 16 豈不曉得你們獻上自己作奴僕，順從誰，就作誰的奴僕嗎？或作罪的奴僕，以至於死；或作順命的奴僕，以致成義。 17 感謝上帝！因為你們從前雖然作罪的奴僕，現今卻從心裏順服了所傳給你們道理的模範。 18 你們既從罪裏得了釋放，就作了義的奴僕。 19 我因你們肉體的軟弱，就照人的常話對你們說。你們從前怎樣將肢體獻給不潔不法作奴僕，以至於不法；現今也要照樣將肢體獻給義作奴僕，以至於成聖。 20 因為你們作罪之奴僕的時候，就不被義約束了。 21 你們現今所看為羞恥的事，當日有甚麼果子呢？那些事的結局就是死。 22 但現今，你們既從罪裏得了釋放，作了上帝的奴僕，就有成聖的果子，那結局就是永生。 23 因為罪的工價乃是死；惟有上帝的恩賜，在我們的主基督耶穌裏，乃是永生。

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.