Romans 6

1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?Cross-references: Rom 2:4 · Rom 3:5 · Rom 3:31 · Rom 5:20 · Rom 6:15 · Gal 5:13 · +3 more

2May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?Cross-references: Gen 39:9 · Ps 119:104 · Rom 3:1 · Rom 5:11 · Rom 6:5 · Rom 7:4 · +10 more

3Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?Cross-references: Matt 28:19 · Acts 2:38 · Acts 8:16 · Acts 19:5 · Rom 6:4 · Rom 6:8 · +17 more

4We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.Cross-references: Matt 28:2 · John 2:11 · John 2:19 · John 11:40 · Acts 2:24 · Rom 6:3 · +25 more

5For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;Cross-references: Ps 92:13 · Isa 5:2 · Jer 2:21 · Matt 15:13 · John 12:24 · John 15:1 · +6 more

6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.Cross-references: 2Ki 5:17 · Isa 26:13 · John 8:34 · Rom 6:12 · Rom 6:22 · Rom 7:24 · +9 more

7For he who has died has been freed from sin.Cross-references: Rom 6:2 · Rom 6:8 · Rom 7:2 · Rom 7:4 · Rom 8:1 · Col 3:1 · +1 more

8But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,Cross-references: John 14:19 · Rom 6:3 · 2Cor 4:10 · 2Cor 13:4 · Col 3:3 · 1Thess 4:14 · +1 more

9knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!Cross-references: Ps 16:9 · Acts 2:24 · Rom 5:14 · Rom 6:14 · Heb 2:14 · Heb 7:16 · +3 more

10For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.Cross-references: Luke 20:38 · Rom 6:11 · Rom 8:3 · Rom 14:7 · 2Cor 5:15 · 2Cor 5:21 · +3 more

11Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.Cross-references: John 20:31 · Rom 5:1 · Rom 6:2 · Rom 6:13 · Rom 6:23 · Rom 8:18 · +10 more

12Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.Cross-references: Num 33:55 · Deut 7:2 · Josh 23:12 · Judg 2:3 · Ps 19:13 · Ps 119:133 · +27 more

13Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.Cross-references: Deut 25:16 · 2Chr 30:8 · Ps 37:30 · Prov 12:18 · Isa 3:10 · Isa 55:7 · +31 more

14For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.Cross-references: Ps 130:7 · Mic 7:19 · Matt 1:21 · John 1:17 · John 8:36 · Rom 3:19 · +15 more

15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!Cross-references: Rom 3:9 · Rom 6:1 · 1Cor 9:20 · 2Cor 7:1 · Gal 2:17 · Eph 2:8 · +2 more

16Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?Cross-references: Josh 24:15 · Matt 6:24 · John 8:34 · Rom 6:12 · Rom 6:17 · Rom 6:19 · +1 more

17But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.Cross-references: 1Chr 29:12 · Ezra 7:27 · Ps 18:44 · Matt 11:25 · Acts 11:18 · Acts 28:15 · +30 more

18Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.Cross-references: Ps 116:16 · Ps 119:32 · Ps 119:45 · Isa 26:13 · Isa 54:17 · Luke 1:74 · +10 more

19I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.Cross-references: Rom 3:5 · Rom 6:13 · Rom 6:16 · Rom 8:26 · Rom 15:1 · 1Cor 5:6 · +10 more

20For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.Cross-references: John 8:34 · Rom 6:16

21What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.Cross-references: Deut 17:6 · Deut 21:22 · 2Sam 12:5 · 1Ki 2:26 · Ezra 9:6 · Job 40:4 · +36 more

22But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.Cross-references: Gen 50:17 · Num 23:10 · Job 1:8 · Ps 37:37 · Ps 86:2 · Ps 92:14 · +33 more

23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.Cross-references: Gen 2:17 · Gen 3:19 · Isa 3:11 · Ezek 18:4 · Ezek 18:20 · Matt 25:46 · +26 more