Romans 6:4-15

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.

¹²So, do not let the desire to sin PRS control your bodies MET with the result that you do the sinful things that you desire to do. Remember that your bodies will surely die, but your spirits will never die.

¹³Do not let any of your body parts do wicked things, as you did MET when you were spiritually dead. Instead, present yourselves to God as people who are alive spiritually. Present all your body parts to God, to allow him to use them to do righteous things.

¹⁴Do not let a desire to sin control you PRS. The laws that God gave Moses did not enable you to stop sinning. But now God controls you and kindly helps you not to sin.

¹⁵I suppose that certain people might think about what I have just said and they might say RHQ, “ You say that the laws God gave Moses did not enable us to stop sinning, but that God is now treating us kindly in ways we do not deserve. ◄ That seems to mean that God permits us to continue sinning./ Does that mean that God permits us to continue sinning?► RHQ” My reply to that is no, we should certainly not continue sinning