{"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/erv/romans/6","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:18:46.738Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","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. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"For if we have become united with him by the likeness of his death, we shall be also by the likeness of his resurrection;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"for he that hath died is justified from sin."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more hath dominion over him."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness unto sanctification."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye 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, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."}],"citation":{"inline":"Romans 6 (ERV)","markdown":"[Romans 6](https://primebible.com/erv/romans/6)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/romans/6 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}