MODERN LITERAL VERSION

6:1 Then* what will we say? Are we remaining in sin, in order that grace may increase?
6:2 Let it not happen! We who died to sin, how will we live in it any longer?
6:3 Or are you* ignorant that as many as were immersed* into Christ Jesus were immersed* into his death?
6:4 Therefore we were buried together with him through the immersion* into death; that* just-like Christ was raised up from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we might also walk in newness of life.
6:5 For* if we have become unified with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be unified with him in the likeness of his resurrection.
6:6 Knowing this, that our old man was crucified together with him, in order that the body of sin might be done-away, that we are to no longer be enslaved to sin;
6:7 for* he who has died has been justified away from sin.
6:8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live together with him;
6:9 knowing that Christ having been raised up from the dead dies no more; death has no more lordship over him.
6:10 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.
6:11 So you* also, count yourselves to be indeed dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your* mortal body, to the end, that you* might obey* it in its lusts;
6:13 nor present your* members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as living from the dead and your* members as instruments of righteousness to God.
6:14 For* sin will not have lordship over you*; for* you* are not under law, but under grace.
6:15 Then* what? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? Let it not happen!
6:16 Do you* not know, that to whom you* present yourselves as bondservants to obedience*, you* are the bondservants to whom you* obey*; either of sin to death or of obedience* to righteousness?
6:17 But gratitude to God, that, though you* were bondservants of sin, you* obeyed* from the heart to that pattern of teaching to which you* were given;
6:18 and having been made free from sin, you* were enslaved to righteousness.

6:19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your* flesh; for* as you* presented your* members as bondservants to uncleanness and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your* members as bondservants to righteousness leading to sanctification.
6:20 For* when you* were bondservants of sin, you* were free in regard to righteousness.
6:21 Therefore, what fruit did you* have then in the things of which you* are now ashamed? For* the end of those things is death.
6:22 But now, having been made free from sin and having been enslaved to God, you* have your* fruit leading to sanctification and the end everlasting life.
6:23 For* the compensation of sin is death, but the gift* of God is everlasting life in Christ Jesus our Lord.