Butch Ewing

Romans 6:1

Romans 6:1 (NLT)
Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of his wonderful grace?

Romans 6:2

Romans 6:2 (NLT)
Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it?

Romans 6:3

Romans 6:3 (NLT)
Or have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death?

Romans 6:4

Romans 6:4 (NLT)
For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.

Romans 6:5

Romans 6:5 (NLT)
Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was.

Romans 6:6

Romans 6:6 (NLT)
We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin.

Romans 6:7

Romans 6:7 (NLT)
For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin.

Romans 6:8

Romans 6:8 (NLT)
And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him.

Romans 6:9

Romans 6:9 (NLT)
We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him.

Romans 6:14

Romans 6:14 (NLT)
Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace.

Romans 6:15

Romans 6:15 (NLT)
Well then, since God’s grace has set us free from the law, does that mean we can go on sinning? Of course not!

Romans 6:16

Romans 6:16 (NLT)
Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living.

Romans 6:17

Romans 6:17 (NLT)
Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have given you.

Romans 6:18

Romans 6:18 (NLT)
Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living.

Romans 6:19

Romans 6:19 (NLT)
Because of the weakness of your human nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living so that you will become holy.

Romans 6:20

Romans 6:20 (NLT)
When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the obligation to do right.

Romans 6:21

Romans 6:21 (NLT)
And what was the result? You are now ashamed of the things you used to do, things that end in eternal doom.

Romans 6:22

Romans 6:22 (NLT)
But now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life.

Romans 6:23

Romans 6:23 (NLT)
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 7:1

Romans 7:1 (NLT)
Now, dear brothers and sisters—you who are familiar with the law—don’t you know that the law applies only while a person is living?

Romans 7:2

Romans 7:2 (NLT)
For example, when a woman marries, the law binds her to her husband as long as he is alive. But if he dies, the laws of marriage no longer apply to her.

Romans 7:3

Romans 7:3 (NLT)
So while her husband is alive, she would be committing adultery if she married another man. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law and does not commit adultery when she remarries.

Romans 7:4

Romans 7:4 (NLT)
So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God.

Romans 7:5

Romans 7:5 (NLT)
When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death.

Romans 7:6

Romans 7:6 (NLT)
But now we have been released from the law, for we died to it and are no longer captive to its power. Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in the Spirit.