Epistula ad Romanos, 6

1. Quid ergo dicemus? Perma nebimus in peccato, ut gratia abundet?

1. What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?

2. Absit! Qui enim mortui sumus peccato, quomodo adhuc vivemus in illo?

2. By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

3. An ignoratis quia, quicumque baptizati sumus in Christum Iesum, in mortem ipsius baptizati sumus?

3. Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

4. Consepulti ergo sumus cum illo per baptismum in mortem, ut quemadmodum suscitatus est Christus a mortuis per gloriam Patris, ita et nos in novitate vitae ambulemus.

4. We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

5. Si enim complantati facti sumus similitudini mortis eius, sed et resurrectionis erimus;

5. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.

6. hoc scientes quia vetus homo noster simul crucifixus est, ut destruatur corpus peccati, ut ultra non serviamus peccato.

6. We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the sinful body might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.

7. Qui enim mortuus est, iustificatus est a peccato.

7. For he who has died is freed from sin.

8. Si autem mortui sumus cum Christo, credimus quia simul etiam vivemus cum eo;

8. But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.

9. scientes quod Christus suscitatus ex mortuis iam non moritur, mors illi ultra non dominatur.

9. For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.

10. Quod enim mortuus est, peccato mortuus est semel; quod autem vivit, vivit Deo.

10. The death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.

11. Ita et vos existimate vos mortuos quidem esse peccato, viventes autem Deo in Christo Iesu.

11. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

12. Non ergo regnet peccatum in vestro mortali corpore, ut oboediatis concupiscentiis eius,

12. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.

13. neque exhibeatis membra vestra arma iniustitiae peccato, sed exhibete vos Deo tamquam ex mortuis viventes et membra vestra arma iustitiae Deo.

13. Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

14. Peccatum enim vobis non dominabitur; non enim sub lege estis sed sub gratia.

14. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

15. Quid ergo? Peccabimus, quoniam non sumus sub lege sed sub gratia? Absit!

15. What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

16. Nescitis quoniam, cui exhibetis vos servos ad oboedientiam, servi estis eius, cui oboeditis, sive peccati ad mortem, sive oboeditionis ad iustitiam?

16. Do you not know that if you yield yourselves to any one as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

17. Gratias autem Deo quod fuistis servi peccati, oboedistis autem ex corde in eam formam doctrinae, in quam traditi estis,

17. But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,

18. liberati autem a peccato servi facti estis iustitiae.

18. and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.

19. Humanum dico propter infirmitatem carnis vestrae. Sicut enim exhibuistis membra vestra servientia immunditiae et iniquitati ad iniquitatem, ita nunc exhibete membra vestra servientia iustitiae ad sanctificationem.

19. I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification.

20. Cum enim servi essetis peccati, liberi eratis iustitiae.

20. When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

21. Quem ergo fructum habebatis tunc, in quibus nunc erubescitis? Nam finis illorum mors!

21. But then what return did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death.

22. Nunc vero liberati a peccato, servi autem facti Deo, habetis fructum vestrum in sanctificationem, finem vero vitam aeternam!

22. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life.

23. Stipendia enim peccati mors, donum autem Dei vita aeterna in Christo Iesu Domino nostro.

23. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.