Romans 5-6

Romans 5

¹Being therefore justified by faith, let us have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

²through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we stand; and let us rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

³And not only so, but let us also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

⁴and patience, probation; and probation, hope:

⁵and hope putteth not to shame; because the love of God hath been shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Ghost which was given unto us.

⁶For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.

⁷For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die.

⁸But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

⁹Much more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath of God through him.

¹⁰For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life;

¹¹and not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

¹²Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:—

¹³for until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

¹⁴Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam’s transgression, who is a figure of him that was to come.

¹⁵But not as the trespass, so also is the free gift. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound unto the many.

¹⁶And not as through one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment came of one unto condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses unto justification.

¹⁷For if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.

¹⁸So then as through one trespass the judgment came unto all men to condemnation; even so through one act of righteousness the free gift came unto all men to justification of life.

¹⁹For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one shall the many be made righteous.

²⁰And the law came in beside, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:

²¹that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6

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

²God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?

³Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

⁴We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

⁵For if we have become united with him by the likeness of his death, we shall be also by the likeness of his resurrection;

⁶knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;

⁷for he that hath died is justified from sin.

⁸But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

⁹knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more hath dominion over him.

¹⁰For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

¹¹Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.

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

¹³neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

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

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

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

¹⁷But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;

¹⁸and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.

¹⁹I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness unto sanctification.

²⁰For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.

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

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

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