{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/romans/6","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T12:03:02.238Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Romans","bookSlug":"romans","chapter":6,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":5,"nextChapter":7,"totalChapters":16,"totalVerses":23},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For he that is dead is freed from sin."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no more dominion over him."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For in that he died, he died to sin once: but in that he lives, he lives to God."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Neither yield you your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin: but yield yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"But God be thanked, that you were the servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Being then made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity to iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness to holiness."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"What fruit had you then in those things whereof you are now ashamed?  for the end of those things is death."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."}],"citation":{"inline":"Romans 6 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Romans 6](https://primebible.com/akjv/romans/6)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/romans/6 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}