Romans 5-6

Romans 5

¹Therefore having been justified on the principle of faith, we have peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

²by whom we have also access by faith into this favour in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God.

³And not only that, but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;

⁴and endurance, experience; and experience, hope;

⁵and hope does not make ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us:

⁶for we being still without strength, in the due time Christ has died for the ungodly.

⁷For scarcely for the just man will one die, for perhaps for the good man some one might also dare to die;

⁸but God commends *his* love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.

⁹Much rather therefore, having been now justified in the power of his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.

¹⁰For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much rather, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in the power of his life.

¹¹And not only that, but we are making our boast in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we have received the reconciliation.

¹²For this cause, even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

¹³(for until law sin was in the world; but sin is not put to account when there is no law;

¹⁴but death reigned from Adam until Moses, even upon those who had not sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him to come.

¹⁵But shall not the act of favour be as the offence? For if by the offence of one the many have died, much rather has the grace of God, and the free gift in grace, which is by the one man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many.

¹⁶And shall not as by one that has sinned be the gift? For the judgment was of one to condemnation, but the act of favour, of many offences unto justification.

¹⁷For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much rather shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the free gift of righteousness, reign in life by the one Jesus Christ:)

¹⁸so then as it was by one offence towards all men to condemnation, so by one righteousness towards all men for justification of life.

¹⁹For as indeed by the disobedience of the one man the many have been constituted sinners, so also by the obedience of the one the many will be constituted righteous.

²⁰But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded,

²¹in order that, even as sin has reigned in the power of death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6

¹What then shall we say? Should we continue in sin that grace may abound?

²Far be the thought. We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?

³Are you ignorant that we, as many as have been baptised unto Christ Jesus, have been baptised unto his death?

⁴We have been buried therefore with him by baptism unto death, in order that, even as Christ has been raised up from among the dead by the glory of the Father, so *we* also should walk in newness of life.

⁵For if we are become identified with him in the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of his resurrection;

⁶knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin.

⁷For he that has died is justified from sin.

⁸Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,

⁹knowing that Christ having been raised up from among the dead dies no more: death has dominion over him no more.

¹⁰For in that he has died, he has died to sin once for all; but in that he lives, he lives to God.

¹¹So also *ye*, reckon yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

¹²Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.

¹³Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God.

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

¹⁵What then? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought.

¹⁶Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

¹⁷But thanks be to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye were instructed.

¹⁸Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.

¹⁹I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh. For even as ye have yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness.

²⁰For when ye were bondmen of sin ye were free from righteousness.

²¹What fruit therefore had ye *then* in the things of which ye are *now* ashamed? for the end of *them* is death.

²²But *now*, having got your freedom from sin, and having become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life.

²³For the wages of sin is death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.