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Romans 6
New King James Version
Romans 6
New King James Version
Dead to Sin, Alive to God
6 What shall we say then? (A)Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who (B)died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that (C)as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus (D)were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were (E)buried with Him through baptism into death, that (F)just as Christ was raised from the dead by (G)the glory of the Father, (H)even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 (I)For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that (J)our old man was crucified with Him, that (K)the body of sin might be [a]done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For (L)he who has died has been [b]freed from sin. 8 Now (M)if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that (N)Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, (O)He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, (P)He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, [c]reckon yourselves to be (Q)dead indeed to sin, but (R)alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 (S)Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your (T)members as [d]instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but (U)present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For (V)sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
From Slaves of Sin to Slaves of God
15 What then? Shall we sin (W)because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! 16 Do you not know that (X)to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? 17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart (Y)that form of doctrine to which you were [e]delivered. 18 And (Z)having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness [f]for holiness.
20 For when you were (AA)slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 (AB)What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For (AC)the end of those things is death. 22 But now (AD)having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit [g]to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. 23 For (AE)the wages of sin is death, but (AF)the [h]gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Footnotes
- Romans 6:6 rendered inoperative
- Romans 6:7 cleared
- Romans 6:11 consider
- Romans 6:13 Or weapons
- Romans 6:17 entrusted
- Romans 6:19 unto sanctification
- Romans 6:22 unto sanctification
- Romans 6:23 free gift
Roemer 6
Hoffnung für Alle
Roemer 6
Hoffnung für Alle
Das neue Leben
6 Was bedeutet das nun für uns? Sollen wir etwa weiter sündigen, damit Gott Gelegenheit hat, uns seine Gnade in ihrer ganzen Größe zu zeigen? 2 Natürlich nicht! Als Christen sind wir für die Sünde tot. Wie könnten wir da noch länger mit ihr leben? 3 Ihr wisst doch, was bei der Taufe geschehen ist: Wir sind auf den Namen von Jesus Christus getauft worden und haben damit auch Anteil an seinem Tod. 4 Durch die Taufe sind wir also mit Christus gestorben und begraben. Und wie Christus durch die Herrlichkeit und Macht seines Vaters von den Toten auferweckt wurde, so haben auch wir ein neues Leben empfangen und sollen nun so handeln, wie es diesem neuen Leben entspricht.
5 Denn wie wir seinen Tod mit ihm geteilt haben, so haben wir auch Anteil an seiner Auferstehung.[a] 6 Letztlich geht es doch darum: Unser früheres Leben endete mit Christus am Kreuz. Unser von der Sünde beherrschtes Wesen ist damit vernichtet, und wir müssen nicht länger der Sünde dienen. 7 Denn wer gestorben ist, kann nicht mehr von der Sünde beherrscht werden.
8 Sind wir aber mit Christus gestorben, dann werden wir auch mit ihm leben – davon sind wir überzeugt. 9 Wir wissen ja, dass Christus von den Toten auferweckt worden ist und nie wieder sterben wird. Der Tod hat keine Macht mehr über ihn. 10 Mit seinem Tod hat Christus ein für alle Mal beglichen, was die Sünde fordern konnte.[b] Jetzt aber lebt er, und er lebt für Gott. 11 Das gilt genauso für euch, und daran müsst ihr festhalten: Ihr seid tot für die Sünde und lebt nun für Gott, der euch durch Jesus Christus das neue Leben gegeben hat.
12 Achtet darauf, dass euer vergänglicher Körper nicht von der Sünde beherrscht wird und ihr seinen Begierden nicht nachgebt. 13 Nichts, keinen einzigen Teil eures Körpers, sollt ihr der Sünde als Werkzeug für das Unrecht zur Verfügung stellen. Dient vielmehr Gott mit allem, was ihr seid und habt. Als Menschen, die ohne Christus tot waren, aber durch ihn neues Leben bekommen haben, sollt ihr jetzt Werkzeuge in Gottes Hand sein, damit er euch für seine Ziele einsetzen kann. 14 Die Sünde hat ihre Macht über euch verloren. Denn ihr seid nicht länger an das Gesetz gebunden, sondern ihr lebt von der Gnade Gottes.
Befreit, um Gott zu dienen
15 Soll das nun etwa heißen, dass wir bedenkenlos sündigen können, weil uns ja Gottes Gnade gilt und wir das Urteil des Gesetzes nicht mehr zu fürchten brauchen?
Natürlich nicht! 16 Wisst ihr nicht, dass ihr dem Herrn gehorchen müsst, dem ihr euch verpflichtet habt? Und das heißt: Entweder entscheidet ihr euch für die Sünde und werdet sterben, oder ihr hört auf Gott, und er wird euch annehmen.
17 Aber Gott sei Dank! Ihr seid nicht mehr hilflos der Sünde ausgeliefert, sondern ihr hört von ganzem Herzen auf das, was euch gelehrt worden ist und was jetzt euer Leben bestimmt. 18 Denn ihr seid von der Herrschaft der Sünde frei geworden; ihr könnt jetzt Gott dienen und das tun, was ihm gefällt.
19 Weil ihr das so schwer verstehen könnt, will ich es euch an einem bekannten Beispiel deutlich machen, dem Sklavendienst: Früher habt ihr der Unmoral und dem Unrecht wie Sklaven gedient. So war euer Leben ein einziger Widerspruch zu Gottes Willen. Jetzt aber sollt ihr uneingeschränkt Gott dienen; lebt so, wie es ihm gefällt, und zeigt auf diese Weise, dass ihr zu ihm gehört! 20 Als Sklaven der Sünde wart ihr zwar frei, allerdings nur vom Guten. 21 Und was kam dabei heraus? Bei dem Gedanken daran könnt ihr euch heute nur schämen, denn es hätte euch nichts anderes eingebracht als den Tod.
22 Aber jetzt seid ihr frei von der Sünde und dient Gott mit eurem ganzen Leben. Das Ergebnis ist: Ihr gehört zu ihm und tut, was ihm gefällt, und schließlich schenkt er euch das ewige Leben.
23 Der Lohn, den die Sünde auszahlt, ist der Tod. Gott aber schenkt uns in der Gemeinschaft mit Jesus Christus, unserem Herrn, ewiges Leben.
Romans 6
New International Version
Romans 6
New International Version
Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ
6 What shall we say, then?(A) Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?(B) 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin;(C) how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized(D) into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 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)
5 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) 6 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)— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.(M)
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.(N) 9 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
- Romans 6:6 Or be rendered powerless
- Romans 6:23 Or through
Romans 6
English Standard Version
Romans 6
English Standard Version
Dead to Sin, Alive to God
6 What shall we say then? (A)Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can (B)we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us (C)who have been baptized (D)into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were (E)buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as (F)Christ was raised from the dead by (G)the glory of the Father, we too might walk in (H)newness of life.
5 For (I)if we have been united with him in (J)a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 We know that (K)our old self[a] (L)was crucified with him in order that (M)the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For (N)one who has died (O)has been set free[b] from sin. 8 Now (P)if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 We know that (Q)Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; (R)death no longer has dominion over him. 10 For the death he died he died to sin, (S)once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11 So you also must consider yourselves (T)dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Let not (U)sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 (V)Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but (W)present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14 For (X)sin (Y)will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Slaves to Righteousness
15 What then? (Z)Are we to sin (AA)because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves (AB)to anyone as obedient slaves,[c] you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But (AC)thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the (AD)standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and, (AE)having been set free from sin, (AF)have become slaves of righteousness. 19 (AG)I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For (AH)just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members (AI)as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
20 (AJ)For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 (AK)But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things (AL)of which you are now ashamed? (AM)For the end of those things is death. 22 But now that you (AN)have been set free from sin and (AO)have become slaves of God, (AP)the fruit you get leads to sanctification and (AQ)its end, eternal life. 23 (AR)For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Footnotes
- Romans 6:6 Greek man
- Romans 6:7 Greek has been justified
- Romans 6:16 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface; twice in this verse; also verses 17, 19 (twice), 20
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Hoffnung für Alle (HOF)
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