The Online Library of Liberty

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• The Calvin Translation Society, Instituted In May M.DCCC.XLIII.
• Translator’s Preface.
• Commentaries On the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans.
• The Epistle Dedicatory.
• Epistle to the Romans.: the Argument.
• Chapter I.
• Chapter II.
• Chapter III.
• Chapter IV.
• Chapter V.
• Chapter VI.
• Chapter VII.
• Chapter VIII.
• Chapter IX.
• Chapter X.
• Chapter XI.
• Chapter XII.
• Chapter XIII.
• Chapter XIV.
• Chapter XV. 1
• Chapter XVI.
• A Translation of Calvin’s Version of the Epistle to the Romans.
• Chapter I.
• Chapter II.
• Chapter III.
• Chapter IV.
• Chapter V.
• Chapter VI.
• Chapter VII.
• Chapter VIII.
• Chapter IX.
• Chapter X.
• Chapter XI.
• Chapter XII.
• Chapter XIII.
• Chapter XIV.
• Chapter XV.
• Chapter XVI.
• Errata.
• Works Published By T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh.

CHAPTER VI.

1What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that2 grace may abound? By no means: we who have died to sin,3 how shall we still live in it? Know ye not, that we all, who have been baptized into Jesus Christ, have been baptized into4 his death? Buried then have we been with him through baptism unto death, that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of5 life: for if we have been ingrafted in the likeness of his death,6 doubtless we shall also be partakers of his resurrection; knowing this, that our old man was crucified together with him, that abolished might be the body of sin, so that we may no7 longer serve sin: for he who has died, has been freed from sin.

8Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall9 also live with him; knowing that Christ, having been raised10 from the dead, dies no more, death no more reigns over him: for that he died, he once for sin died; and that he lives, he lives to God.

11So also regard ye yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but12 alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Let not sin then13 reign in your mortal body, so as to obey it in its lusts. Neither present your members, as weapons of unrighteousness, to sin; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead,14 and your members, as weapons of righteousness, to God: for sin shall not rule over you, since ye are not under the law, but under grace.

15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the16 law, but under grace? By no means: know ye not that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, ye are the17 servants of him whom ye obey, whether of sin for death, or of obedience for righteousness? But thanks to God; for ye have been the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the18 heart the form of doctrine into which you were delivered; and having been freed from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

19I speak what is human on account of the infirmity of your flesh: As ye have presented your members to uncleanness and to iniquity for iniquity, so also now present your members servants20 to righteousness for holiness: for when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

21What fruit therefore had you then in those things, of which22 ye are now ashamed? for their end is death; but now, having been freed from sin and made servants to God, ye have your23 fruit, holiness, and your end, eternal life: for the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.