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Hvað eigum vér þá að segja? Eigum vér að halda áfram í syndinni til þess að náðin aukist?

Fjarri fer því. Vér sem dóum syndinni, hvernig ættum vér framar að lifa í henni?

Eða vitið þér ekki, að allir vér, sem skírðir erum til Krists Jesú, erum skírðir til dauða hans?

Vér erum því dánir og greftraðir með honum í skírninni, til þess að lifa nýju lífi, eins og Kristur var upp vakinn frá dauðum fyrir dýrð föðurins.

Því að ef vér erum orðnir samgrónir honum í líkingu dauða hans, munum vér einnig vera það í líkingu upprisu hans.

Vér vitum, að vor gamli maður er með honum krossfestur, til þess að líkami syndarinnar skuli að engu verða og vér ekki framar þjóna syndinni.

Því að sá, sem dauður er, er leystur frá syndinni.

Ef vér erum með Kristi dánir, trúum vér því, að vér og munum með honum lifa.

Vér vitum að Kristur, upp vakinn frá dauðum, deyr ekki framar. Dauðinn drottnar ekki lengur yfir honum.

10 Með dauða sínum dó hann syndinni í eitt skipti fyrir öll, en með lífi sínu lifir hann Guði.

11 Þannig skuluð þér líka álíta yður sjálfa vera dauða syndinni, en lifandi Guði í Kristi Jesú.

12 Látið því ekki syndina ríkja í dauðlegum líkama yðar, svo að þér hlýðnist girndum hans.

13 Ljáið ekki heldur syndinni limi yðar að ranglætisvopnum, heldur bjóðið sjálfa yður Guði sem lifnaða frá dauðum og limi yðar Guði sem réttlætisvopn.

14 Synd skal ekki drottna yfir yður, því að ekki eruð þér undir lögmáli, heldur undir náð.

15 Hvað þá? Eigum vér að syndga, af því að vér erum ekki undir lögmáli, heldur undir náð? Fjarri fer því.

16 Vitið þér ekki, að ef þér bjóðið öðrum sjálfa yður fyrir þjóna og hlýðið honum, þá eruð þér þjónar þess, sem þér hlýðið, hvort heldur er syndar til dauða eða hlýðni til réttlætis?

17 En þökk sé Guði! Þér voruð þjónar syndarinnar, en urðuð af hjarta hlýðnir þeirri kenningu, sem þér voruð á vald gefnir.

18 Og þér gjörðust þjónar réttlætisins eftir að hafa verið leystir frá syndinni.

19 Ég tala á mannlegan hátt, sökum veikleika yðar. Því að eins og þér hafið boðið limi yðar óhreinleikanum og ranglætinu fyrir þjóna til ranglætis, svo skuluð þér nú bjóða limi yðar réttlætinu fyrir þjóna til helgunar.

20 Þegar þér voruð þjónar syndarinnar, þá voruð þér lausir við réttlætið.

21 Hvaða ávöxtu höfðuð þér þá? Þá sem þér nú blygðist yðar fyrir, því að þeir leiða að lokum til dauða.

22 En nú, með því að þér eruð leystir frá syndinni, en eruð orðnir þjónar Guðs, þá hafið þér ávöxt yðar til helgunar og eilíft líf að lokum.

23 Laun syndarinnar er dauði, en náðargjöf Guðs er eilíft líf í Kristi Jesú, Drottni vorum.

Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

What shall we say, then?(A) Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?(B) By no means! We are those who have died to sin;(C) how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized(D) into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death(E) in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead(F) through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.(G)

For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.(H) For we know that our old self(I) was crucified with him(J) so that the body ruled by sin(K) might be done away with,[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin(L) because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.(M)

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.(N) For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead,(O) he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.(P) 10 The death he died, he died to sin(Q) once for all;(R) but the life he lives, he lives to God.

11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin(S) but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign(T) in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness,(U) but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness.(V) 14 For sin shall no longer be your master,(W) because you are not under the law,(X) but under grace.(Y)

Slaves to Righteousness

15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace?(Z) By no means! 16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey(AA)—whether you are slaves to sin,(AB) which leads to death,(AC) or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God(AD) that, though you used to be slaves to sin,(AE) you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching(AF) that has now claimed your allegiance. 18 You have been set free from sin(AG) and have become slaves to righteousness.(AH)

19 I am using an example from everyday life(AI) because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness(AJ) leading to holiness. 20 When you were slaves to sin,(AK) you were free from the control of righteousness.(AL) 21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!(AM) 22 But now that you have been set free from sin(AN) and have become slaves of God,(AO) the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.(AP) 23 For the wages of sin is death,(AQ) but the gift of God is eternal life(AR) in[b] Christ Jesus our Lord.

Footnotes

  1. Romans 6:6 Or be rendered powerless
  2. Romans 6:23 Or through

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.