My master has made me almost equal to him in his house. I must not sleep with his wife! That is wrong! It is a sin against God.”
Romans 6:2 - Easy To Read Version No! We died to (quit living) our old sinful lives. So how can we continue living with sin? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer? American Standard Version (1901) God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein? Common English Bible Absolutely not! All of us died to sin. How can we still live in it? Catholic Public Domain Version Let it not be so! For how can we who have died to sin still live in sin? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version God forbid. For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein? |
My master has made me almost equal to him in his house. I must not sleep with his wife! That is wrong! It is a sin against God.”
He will come and kill those farmers! Then he will lease the land to some other farmers.”
And not only will we be saved, but we are also very happy now. We are happy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. It is because of Jesus that we are now God’s friends.
So what should we do? Should we sin because we are under grace (kindness) and not under law? No!
In the same way, my brothers and sisters, your old selves died and you became free from the law {\cf2\super [52]} through the body of Christ. Now you belong to someone else. You belong to the One (Christ) that was raised from death. We belong to Christ so that we can be used in service to God.
In the past, the law held us like prisoners. But our old selves died and we were made free from the law. So now we serve God in a new way, not in the old way with the written rules. Now we serve God in the new way with the Spirit. {\cf2\super [53]}
I stopped living for the law. It was the law that killed me. I died to the law so that I can now live for God. I (my old life) was killed on the cross with Christ.
I hope I will never boast about things like that. The cross (death) of our Lord Jesus Christ is my only reason for boasting. Through Jesus’ death on the cross the world is dead {\cf2\super [80]} to me; and I am dead to the world.
You died with Christ and were made free from the worthless rules of the world. So why do you act like you still belong to this world? I mean, why do you follow rules like these:
Your old sinful self has died, and your new life is kept with Christ in God.
In the past you did not understand about these things, so you did the evil things you wanted. But now you are children \{of God\} who obey. So don’t live like you lived in the past.
Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross. He did this so that we would stop living for sin and live for what is right. By his (Christ’s) wounds you were healed.
When God makes a person his child, that person does not continue to sin. Why? Because the new life God gave that person {\cf2\super [9]} stays in him. So that person is not able to continue sinning. Why? Because he has become a child of God.