Romans 6
New English Translation
The Believer’s Freedom from Sin’s Domination
6 What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase? 2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.[a]
5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.[b] 6 We know that[c] our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us,[d] so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)[e]
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 We know[f] that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die[g] again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11 So you too consider yourselves[h] dead to sin, but[i] alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires, 13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments[j] to be used for unrighteousness,[k] but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments[l] to be used for righteousness. 14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.
The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not! 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves[m] as obedient slaves,[n] you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?[o] 17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed[p] from the heart that pattern[q] of teaching you were entrusted to, 18 and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. 19 (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.)[r] For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.
21 So what benefit[s] did you then reap[t] from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now, freed[u] from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit[v] leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life. 23 For the payoff[w] of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Footnotes
- Romans 6:4 tn Grk “may walk in newness of life,” in which ζωῆς (zōēs) functions as an attributed genitive (see ExSyn 89-90, where this verse is given as a prime example).
- Romans 6:5 tn Grk “we will certainly also of his resurrection.”
- Romans 6:6 tn Grk “knowing this, that.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
- Romans 6:6 tn Grk “may be rendered ineffective, inoperative,” or possibly “may be destroyed.” The term καταργέω (katargeō) has various nuances. In Rom 7:2 the wife whose husband has died is freed from the law (i.e., the law of marriage no longer has any power over her, in spite of what she may feel). A similar point seems to be made here (note v. 7).
- Romans 6:7 sn Verse 7 forms something of a parenthetical comment in Paul’s argument.
- Romans 6:9 tn Grk “knowing.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
- Romans 6:9 tn The present tense here has been translated as a futuristic present (see ExSyn 536, where this verse is listed as an example).
- Romans 6:11 tc ‡ Some Alexandrian and Byzantine mss (P94vid א* B C 81 365 1506 1739 1881) have the infinitive “to be” (εἶναι, einai) following “yourselves”. The infinitive is lacking from some mss of the Alexandrian and Western textual clusters (P46vid A D*,c F G 33). The infinitive is found elsewhere in the majority of Byzantine mss, suggesting a scribal tendency toward clarification. The lack of infinitive best explains the rise of the other readings. The meaning of the passage is not significantly altered by inclusion or omission, but on internal grounds omission is more likely. NA28 includes the infinitive in brackets, indicating doubt as to its authenticity.
- Romans 6:11 tn Greek emphasizes the contrast between these two clauses more than can be easily expressed in English.
- Romans 6:13 tn Or “weapons, tools.”
- Romans 6:13 tn Or “wickedness, injustice.”
- Romans 6:13 tn Or “weapons, tools.”
- Romans 6:16 tn Grk “to whom you present yourselves.”
- Romans 6:16 tn Grk “as slaves for obedience.” See the note on the word “slave” in 1:1.
- Romans 6:16 tn Grk “either of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness.”
- Romans 6:17 tn Grk “you were slaves of sin but you obeyed.”
- Romans 6:17 tn Or “type, form.”
- Romans 6:19 tn Or “because of your natural limitations” (NRSV). sn Verse 19 forms something of a parenthetical comment in Paul’s argument.
- Romans 6:21 tn Grk “fruit.”
- Romans 6:21 tn Grk “have,” in a tense emphasizing their customary condition in the past.
- Romans 6:22 tn The two aorist participles translated “freed” and “enslaved” are causal in force; their full force is something like “But now, since you have become freed from sin and since you have become enslaved to God….”
- Romans 6:22 tn Grk “fruit.”
- Romans 6:23 tn A figurative extension of ὀψώνιον (opsōnion), which refers to a soldier’s pay or wages. Here it refers to the end result of an activity, seen as something one receives back in return. In this case the activity is sin, and the translation “payoff” captures this thought. See also L&N 89.42.
Romains 6
Nouvelle Edition de Genève – NEG1979
Mourir avec Christ pour renaître en Christ
6 Que dirons-nous donc? Demeurerions-nous dans le péché, afin que la grâce abonde? 2 Loin de là! Nous qui sommes morts au péché, comment vivrions-nous encore dans le péché?
3 Ignorez-vous que nous tous qui avons été baptisés en Jésus-Christ, c’est en sa mort que nous avons été baptisés? 4 Nous avons donc été ensevelis avec lui par le baptême en sa mort, afin que, comme Christ est ressuscité des morts par la gloire du Père, de même nous aussi nous marchions en nouveauté de vie. 5 En effet, si nous sommes devenus une même plante avec lui par la conformité à sa mort, nous le serons aussi par la conformité à sa résurrection, 6 sachant que notre vieil homme a été crucifié avec lui, afin que le corps du péché soit réduit à l’impuissance[a], pour que nous ne soyons plus esclaves du péché; 7 car celui qui est mort est libre du péché. 8 Or, si nous sommes morts avec Christ, nous croyons que nous vivrons aussi avec lui, 9 sachant que Christ ressuscité des morts ne meurt plus; la mort n’a plus de pouvoir sur lui. 10 Car il est mort, et c’est pour le péché qu’il est mort une fois pour toutes; il est revenu à la vie, et c’est pour Dieu qu’il vit. 11 Ainsi vous-mêmes, regardez-vous comme morts au péché, et comme vivants pour Dieu en Jésus-Christ.
12 Que le péché ne règne donc point dans votre corps mortel, et n’obéissez pas à ses convoitises. 13 Ne livrez pas vos membres au péché, comme des instruments d’iniquité; mais donnez-vous vous-mêmes à Dieu, comme étant vivants de morts que vous étiez, et offrez à Dieu vos membres, comme des instruments de justice.
14 Car le péché n’aura point de pouvoir sur vous, puisque vous êtes, non sous la loi, mais sous la grâce.
15 Quoi donc! Pécherions-nous, parce que nous sommes, non sous la loi, mais sous la grâce? Loin de là!
16 Ne savez-vous pas qu’en vous livrant à quelqu’un comme esclaves pour lui obéir, vous êtes esclaves de celui à qui vous obéissez, soit du péché qui conduit à la mort, soit de l’obéissance qui conduit à la justice? 17 Mais grâces soient rendues à Dieu de ce que, après avoir été esclaves du péché, vous avez obéi de cœur à la règle de doctrine dans laquelle vous avez été instruits[b]. 18 Ayant été affranchis du péché, vous êtes devenus esclaves de la justice. 19 – Je parle à la manière des hommes, à cause de la faiblesse de votre chair. – De même donc que vous avez livré vos membres comme esclaves à l’impureté et à l’iniquité, pour arriver à l’iniquité, ainsi maintenant livrez vos membres comme esclaves à la justice, pour arriver à la sainteté. 20 Car, lorsque vous étiez esclaves du péché, vous étiez libres à l’égard de la justice. 21 Quels fruits portiez-vous alors? Des fruits dont vous rougissez aujourd’hui. Car la fin de ces choses, c’est la mort. 22 Mais maintenant, étant affranchis du péché et devenus esclaves de Dieu, vous avez pour fruit la sainteté et pour fin la vie éternelle. 23 Car le salaire du péché, c’est la mort; mais le don gratuit de Dieu, c’est la vie éternelle en Jésus-Christ notre Seigneur.
Footnotes
- Romains 6:6 Seg. détruit
- Romains 6:17 Dans laquelle vous avez été instruits, litt. à laquelle vous avez été livrés
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