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This Does Not Mean That We Should Keep Sinning Because Salvation Is By Grace
6 Therefore, what shall we say? Should we[a] be continuing in sin in order that grace might increase? 2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
Don’t You Know That We Died With Christ In Order To Live a New Life With Him?
3 Or do you not know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried-with Him through baptism into death in order that just as Christ arose from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of life.
For We Share In His Death To Sin And His Life With God
5 For if we have become united-with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this: that our old person was crucified-with Him in order that the body of sin might be done-away-with[b], so that we no longer[c] are-slaves[d] to sin. 7 For the one having died has been declared-righteous from sin. 8 And if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live-with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having arisen from the dead, dies no more. Death lords-over Him no longer. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once-for-all. But the life that He is living, He is living to God. 11 So also you, be counting yourselves to be dead to sin but living to God in Christ Jesus.
So Don’t Let Sin Reign In You, But Present Yourselves To God As Alive From The Dead
12 Therefore do not let sin be reigning in your mortal body so that you are obeying its desires, 13 nor be presenting your body-parts to sin as instruments[e] of unrighteousness. But present yourselves to God as-if [f] being alive from the dead, and your body-parts to God as instruments of righteousness. 14 For sin shall not lord-over you— for you are not under the Law[g], but under grace.
This Does Not Mean We Should Sin Because We Are Not Under Law, But Under Grace
15 Therefore, what? Should we sin[h] because we are not under the Law but under grace? May it never be!
You Were Freed From Slavery To Sin. So Present Yourselves As Slaves of Righteousness
16 Do you not know that to whom you are presenting yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to whom you are obeying— whether slaves of sin leading-to[i] death, or slaves of obedience leading-to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that you were slaves of sin, but you obeyed from the heart the form[j] of teaching to which you were delivered. 18 And having been set-free from sin, you were enslaved[k] to righteousness 19 (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh). For just as you presented your body-parts as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading-to lawlessness, so now present your body-parts as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.
The Fruit of Sin Is Shame And Death; Righteousness Leads To Holiness And Life
20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free to[l] righteousness. 21 So what fruit were you having at that time? Things[m] over which you are now ashamed! For the outcome of those things is death. 22 But now having been set-free from sin and enslaved to God, you are having your fruit leading-to holiness. And the outcome is eternal life! 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
But We Are Indeed Not Under The Law, For It Only Has Jurisdiction Over The Living
7 Or[n] do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to ones knowing the Law[o]), that the Law lords-over[p] the person for as much time as he lives? 2 For the married woman has been bound by the Law to the living husband; but if the husband dies, she has been released from the law of [q] the husband. 3 So then, while the husband is living, she will be called an adulteress if she comes[r] to a different husband. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, having come to a different husband.
We Have Died To The Law In Christ
4 So-then[s], my brothers, you also were put-to-death with reference to the Law[t] through the body of Christ so that you might come[u] to a different One— to the One having arisen from the dead— in order that we might bear-fruit for God.
Having Died, We Are Released From The Law Through Which Sin Produced Death
5 For when we were in the flesh[v], the passions of [w] sins which[x] were through[y] the Law were at-work in our body-parts so as to bear-fruit for death. 6 But now we were released[z] from the Law, having died to that by which we were being held, so that we are serving in newness of the Spirit[aa] and not in oldness of the letter[ab].
Not That The Law Is At Fault For My Sin
7 Therefore, what shall we say? Is the Law sin[ac]? May it never be! On-the-contrary, I would not have known[ad] sin except through the Law.
Sin Used The Law To Produce Sin In Me
For indeed I would not have known[ae] coveting[af] if the Law were not saying [in Ex 20:17], “You shall not covet”. 8 But sin, having taken[ag] an opportunity[ah] through the commandment, produced[ai] every[aj] [kind of ] coveting in me. For apart-from[ak] the Law, sin is dead[al].
And Sin Used The Law To Kill Me
9 And I was once[am] alive apart from the Law. But the commandment having come, sin became-alive[an] 10 and I died. And the commandment for[ao] life— this was found in me to be for[ap] death. 11 For sin, having taken an opportunity through the commandment, deceived[aq] me, and through it, killed me.
So The Law Is Good
12 So-then the Law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
Not That The Law Killed Me. Sin Is To Blame For My Death
13 Therefore did the good thing become death[ar] for me? May it never be! On the contrary, it was sin, in order that it might become-visible as sin while producing death in me through the good thing, in order that sin might become extremely[as] sinful through the commandment.
I Agree The Law Is Good, But The Sin In Me Produces Behavior I Hate
14 For[at] we know that the Law is spiritual. But I am made-of-flesh[au], having been sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand[av] what[aw] I am producing. For I am not practicing this which I am wanting, but I am doing this which I am hating. 16 But if I am doing this which I am not wanting, I am agreeing-with[ax] the Law— that it is good. 17 And now I am no longer producing it, but the sin[ay] dwelling in me is.
I Know I Am Not Good, For I Cannot Do The Good I Want To Do
18 For I know that good does not dwell in me, that is, in my flesh. For the wanting is present in me, but the producing the good is not. 19 For I am not doing the good which I am wanting, but I am practicing this evil which I am not wanting. 20 But if I am doing this which I am not wanting, I am no longer producing it, but the sin[az] dwelling in me is.
So The Evil Inside Me Enslaves Me To The Law of Sin And Death In Me
21 I find then the law[ba] in me, the one wanting to do the good, that the evil is present in me. 22 For I am rejoicing-with[bb] the Law of God according-to[bc] the inner person. 23 But I am seeing a different law in my body-parts waging-war-against[bd] the law of my mind, and taking me captive[be] under the law of sin existing in my body-parts. 24 I am a wretched[bf] person! Who will deliver me from this[bg] body of [bh] death? 25 But thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself am serving the Law of God with the mind, but the law of sin with the flesh.
Disciples' Literal New Testament: Serving Modern Disciples by More Fully Reflecting the Writing Style of the Ancient Disciples, Copyright © 2011 Michael J. Magill. All Rights Reserved. Published by Reyma Publishing