Romans 6 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
Time Period
c. AD 57
Location
Rome
Audience
Mixed community of Jewish and Gentile Christians in Rome
Situation
Paul counters the objection that grace encourages continued sinning by explaining that believers, through baptism, have died to sin and been raised with Christ to live new lives of righteousness.
Key Background
The Epistle to the Romans was penned by Paul from Corinth to introduce himself before his anticipated visit. The Roman church, possibly founded by Pentecost visitors from Rome (Acts 2:10), included both Jews and Gentiles. Tensions emerged after Jewish Christians, expelled by Emperor Claudius in AD 49, returned post-AD 54, highlighting debates over the law's role amid Paul's gospel of justification by faith.
So what do we say then? Should we keep on living in so that increases?
Absolutely not! We to corruption — how could we possibly keep living in it?
Don't you realize that all of us who were into Jesus, The were into his death?
So through this into death, we were buried right alongside him. And just as The One was raised from the dead by the Father's we too now walk in a completely of
Because if we've been with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be with him in a like his.
We know this: our was so that the by would be stripped of its power, and we would no longer be to
Because anyone who has died has been from corruption's power.
Now if we died with The One, we that we will also live with him.
We know that since The One was raised from the dead, death no longer has him. Death can't touch him anymore.
Because when he died, he died to corruption and for all. But the life he lives now, he lives fully for God.
In the same way, as dead to corruption but fully alive to God through Jesus, The One.
So don't let corruption over your making you obey its cravings.
And stop offering the parts of your body to corruption as for wrong. Instead, offer yourselves to God — like people who've been brought from death to life — and give every part of your body to God as for
Corruption will not be your because you're not under anymore — you're under undeserved kindness.
So then what? Should we keep doing wrong because we're not under law but under undeserved kindness? Absolutely not!
Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient you become to whatever you obey? Either you're a slave to corruption, which leads to death, or you're a slave to obedience, which leads to being with
But thank God! You used to be enslaved to corruption, but then you the of you were given.
Once you were from corruption, you became of doing what's right.
I'm putting this in human terms because of your natural limitations. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body as slaves to and to ever-increasing now offer them as slaves to doing what's right, leading to being
When you were enslaved to corruption, doing what's right had no on you at all.
So what did you actually get out of all that? What was the from the things you're now ashamed of? Because those things only ever lead to
But now that you've been set free from corruption and have become servants of God, the payoff you get leads to being — and the final result is
Because the that corruption pays out is death. But God's is limitless life through Jesus, The One, our