New Testament · Letters

Romans chapter 6

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, , were submerged 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 .Because if we’ve been with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a like his.We know this: our was so that the would be stripped of its power, and we would no longer be to corruption.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 him. Death can’t touch him anymore.Because when he died, he died to corruption . 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 doing 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 tools 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 slaves 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 .But thank God! You used to be enslaved to corruption, but then you the 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 .When you were enslaved to corruption, doing what’s right 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 — and the final result is .Because the that corruption pays out is death. But God’s is limitless life through Jesus, The One, our .