Romans 6:1-11

¹Someone might RHQ say in reply to what I have written that since God acted kindly toward us in a way we did not deserve because we sinned, perhaps we should continue to sin in order that he may continue to act even more kindly toward us and keep on forgiving us! RHQ

²I would reply, No, certainly not! We ought to consider that our sinful desires MET cannot make us do what they want us to do, just like we cannot make a corpse do what we want it to do. So it is not right that we continue to sin! RHQ

³When we were baptized { asked someone to baptize us} in order to show that we have a relationship with (OR, are united to) Jesus Christ, our being baptized was to declare that it was as though we died with Christ. ◄ I want you to remember that!/Do you not know that?► RHQ

⁴So, when we were baptized {someone baptized us}, it was as though we were buried with Christ. We were baptized in order to indicate that we would not let our sinful desires make us do what they want us to do, just like people cannot make a corpse do what they want it to do MET. We were baptized to signify that we would continually conduct our lives in a new way, just like Christ was caused to live again in a new way by the great power of God his Father.

⁵Because of our close relationship with Christ, we have separated ourselves from the former way in which we conducted our lives, just like he was separated from his physical life when he died MET. But God will also certainly enable us to live in a new way, just like he enabled Christ to live again.

⁶We must keep remembering that when Christ died on the cross MET, it was as though our sinful nature died with him. It has lost its power to make us do what it wants us to do MET. That happened in order that we would not do the sinful things that our bodies MET, which desire to sin, want us to do, and in order that we would no longer have to sin MET, as slaves have to do what their masters want.

⁷We are, as it were, freed { free} from sinful desires MET controlling us, just like those who have died are free from anything controlling them.

⁸Since it is as though we died with Christ, we believe that we will continue to live with him.

⁹We know that since God enabled Christ to live again after he died, Christ will never die again. Nothing will ever be able to make him die again PRS.

¹⁰When he died, he died once for people who had sinned, and he will never die again; but in regard to his living again now, he lives in order to serve/honor God.

¹¹Similarly, you must consider that it is as though you have become unable to do what your sinful desires MET want, as a corpse is not able to do what anyone wants it to do. You must also consider that because of your relationship to Christ Jesus you are living in a new way in order to serve/honor God.