Preface: We can remain as unbelievers and controlled by the sin nature. The end result of that is death. However, if we believe in Christ Jesus, then we are placed into Him. This gives us the opportunity to think with the mind of Christ (after many years of study under a well-qualified pastor-teacher); and the ability to produce divine good. That is rewardable, but primarily what is in view in this chapter is the reward of eternal life.

Bible Summary: We were baptised into Christ's death. So consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God. Offer yourselves to God for righteousness.

This should be the most extensive examination of Romans 6 available, where you will be able to examine in depth every word of the original text.

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         Summary            Why Romans 6 is in the Word of God

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         Addendum          Doctrine of Retroactive Positional Truth (by R. B. Thieme, Jr.)

         Addendum          The Doctrine of Current Positional Truth (by R. B. Thieme, Jr.)

         Addendum          Seven Baptisms in Scripture (by R. B. Thieme, Jr.)

         Addendum          James Rickard’s Doctrine of Walking

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         Addendum          A Complete Translation of Romans 6

         Addendum          Doctrinal Teachers Who Have Taught Romans 6

         Addendum          Word Cloud from the Kukis Paraphrase of Romans 6

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An Introduction to Romans 6

I ntroduction: Romans 6 very much deals with retroactive positional truth and current positional truth. For that reason, I have included those doctrines in the Addendum (along with their basic definitions repeated throughout this document). Paul argues various points using these doctrines as his starting point.

What seems to be key in this chapter is the question, okay, we have been saved, what next? The first question in the realm is, since God gives us great grace for our great sins, should we sin more in order to increase God’s grace?

There are two sets of questions asked for this chapter. The first is Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? (ESV) This question is answered in vv. 2–14, which passage focuses on retroactive positional truth, current positional truth; and the control of the sin nature as over against the control of the spiritual life.

The second question is Romans 6:15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! (ESV) The rest of the chapter answers these questions.

Most of the references to sin in this chapter are not to a set of particular sins nor are they about carrying on a sinful lifestyle. These are references to the sin nature, for the most part, and the production of the sin nature (which can include human good).

Romans 7 will be similarly arranged—two sets of questions followed by a lot of explanation.

I do not think that these are necessarily questions which have come out of the Roman church. I believe Paul has a general idea of the points that he is going to make, and he anticipates questions or objections, then states them and deals with them.

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Here is how others have translated this verse:

Ancient texts:                       I will use the Westcott-Hort Greek text as the basis for my English translation. I use that test primarily because e-sword has a nice module by Rob Wolfram which has the interlinear English text, Strong’s #’s, and the Greek morphology. The e-sword tab is IWH+P. I do not use their English text for my translation. Also, throughout, I take in consideration alternate readings.

As a young Christian, I was quite interested in the alternative readings. After many decades of study, I have found that, as with the Hebrew text, disputed readings rarely have any affect on the interpretation of a text (apart from perhaps a half-dozen fairly well-known alternate readings, like the end of the book of Mark).

I will compare the Greek text to English translations of the Latin and Syriac (= Aramaic) texts, using the Douay-Rheims translation and George Lamsa’s translation from the Syriac. I often update these texts with non-substantive changes (e.g., you for thou, etc.).

In general, the Latin text is an outstanding translation from the Hebrew text into Latin and very trustworthy (I say this as a non-Catholic). Unfortunately, I do not read Latin—apart from some very obvious words—so I am dependent upon the English translation of the Latin (principally, the Douay-Rheims translation).

The Septuagint and the Dead Sea Scrolls are irrelevant, as they preceded the writing of the New Testament by over 200 years.

Underlined words indicate differences in the text.

Ancient texts:

Westcott-Hort Text (Greek)    What therefore will we say? Should we continue in the sin that the grace may superabound? May it not be. We who have died to the sin, how yet will we live in her?

Complete Apostles’ Bible      What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

Certainly not! We died to sin--How shall we live any longer in it?

Douay-Rheims 1899 (Amer.) What shall we say, then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

God forbid! For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?

Holy Aramaic Scriptures        .

Original Aramaic NT              What shall we say, therefore? Shall we remain in sin that grace may abound?

God forbid! For those of us who have died to sin, how shall we live in it again?

Lamsa Peshitta (Syriac)         .

Significant differences: 

English Translations:          I have included translations which I disagree with and footnotes that I do not necessarily agree with. If I believe that the author is too far from the truth, I may even address that at the footnote. However, nearly all of the correct commentary will be found following the Greek text box and the translation of each phrase.

Limited Vocabulary Translations:

Bible in Basic English             What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace? 

In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

Bible in Worldwide English     What shall we say then? Shall we keep on doing wrong things so that God will be more kind to us?

No, surely not! We died to our wrong ways and no longer live in them.

Easy English                          .

Easy-to-Read Version–2008  So do you think we should continue sinning so that God will give us more and more grace? Of course not! Our old sinful life ended. It's dead. So how can we continue living in sin?

God’s Word™                         What should we say then? Should we continue to sin so that God's kindness will increase? That's unthinkable! As far as sin is concerned, we have died. So how can we still live under sin's influence?

Good News Bible (TEV)         What shall we say, then? Should we continue to live in sin so that God's grace will increase? Certainly not! We have died to sin---how then can we go on living in it?

J. B. Phillips                           .

The Message                         .

NIRV                                      .

New Life Version                    .

Radiant New Testament        .

New Simplified Bible              .

Thought-for-thought translations; dynamic translations; paraphrases:

Casual English Bible              .

Contemporary English V.       What should we say? Should we keep on sinning, so that God's wonderful kindness will show up even better? No, we should not! If we are dead to sin, how can we go on sinning?

Goodspeed New Testament  .

The Living Bible                     .

New Berkeley Version           .

New Living Translation           .

The Passion Translation        So what do we do, then? Do we persist in sin so that God’s kindness and grace will increase?  What a terrible thought! We have died to sin once and for all, as a dead man passes away from this life. So how could we live under sin’s rule a moment longer?

Plain English Version             .

UnfoldingWord Simplified T.  Someone might say in reply to what I have written that since God has acted kindly toward us, perhaps we should continue to sin in order that his kindness would be the greater. No, certainly not! We are like people who have died, who can no longer do anything evil. So we should not continue to sin.

Williams’ New Testament      What is our conclusion then? Are we to continue to sin for His unmerited favor to multiply? Not at all! Since we have ended our relation to sin, how can we live in it any longer?

Partially literal and partially paraphrased translations:

American English Bible          .

Beck’s American Translation .

Breakthrough Version            So what will we state? Should we stay over in the sin so that the generosity might increase? It could not happen. How will we, some who died to the sin, still live in it?

Common English Bible           .

Len Gane Paraphrase           What shall we say then? Should we persist in sin, so grace may increase? Absolutely not! How can we who are dead to sin, live in that any longer?

A. Campbell's Living Oracles What do we say, then? Shall we continue in sin, that favor may abound? By no means. How shall we, who have died to sin, continue to live in it?.

New Advent (Knox) Bible       .

NT for Everyone                     .

20^th Century New Testament What are we to say, then? Are we to continue to sin, in order that God's loving-kindness may be multiplied? Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, and how can we go on living in it?

Mostly literal renderings (with some occasional paraphrasing):

An Understandable Version   .

Berean Study Bible                .

Christian Standard Bible        .

Conservapedia Translation    .

Revised Ferrar-Fenton           .

Free Bible Version                 What then shall we say? Do we continue in sin so that grace may abound?

Far from it! How shall we who have died to sin go on living in it?

International Standard V        No Longer Sin’s Slaves, but God’s Slaves

What should we say, then? Should we go on sinning so that grace may increase? Of course not! How can we who died as far as sin is concerned go on living in it?

Lexham Bible                         Formerly Dead to Sin, Now Alive in Christ

What therefore shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, in order that grace may increase?

May it never be! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Montgomery NT                     What then shall we say? Shall we continue to abound in sin, in order that grace may come to abound? No indeed; how shall we who have died to sin still go on living in it any longer?

NIV, ©2011                             .

Riverside New Testament      WHAT shall we say then? Shall we remain in sin so that grace may be great?

Never. How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

Leicester A. Sawyer’s NT      .

The Spoken English NT         Does God’s Grace Give Us a License to Sin?
So, what shall we say? Shall we stay in sin, so that grace will go even further?

Never! We’ve died to sin. How can we still live in it?

UnfoldingWord Literal Text    .

Urim-Thummim Version         What will we say then? Will we continue in sin so that Grace may abound? Elohim forbid. How will we that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?

Weymouth New Testament    To what conclusion, then, shall we come? Are we to persist in sinning in order that the grace extended to us may be the greater? No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?

Wikipedia Bible Project          How should we respond? Should we go on sinning so we can have more and more grace? Of course not! Since we have already died to sin, how can we live in sin any longer?

Worsley’s New Testament    . God forbid

Catholic Bibles (those having the imprimatur):

Christian Community (1988)     .

The Heritage Bible                 .

New American Bible (2011)   .

New Catholic Bible                 .

New Jerusalem Bible             .

NRSV (Anglicized Cath. Ed.) .

Revised English Bible–1989   .

Jewish/Hebrew Names Bibles:

Complete Jewish Bible           .

Hebraic Roots Bible               .

Holy New Covenant Trans.    What should our answer be? Should we continue in sin so that God’s help in time of need will overflow? Never! How could we live in sin anymore? We died to it!

The Scriptures 2009              What, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, to let favour increase? 

Let it not be! How shall we who died to sin^a still live in it?

^aSee Romans 8:13, Colossians 3:3, 1Peter 2:24. 

Tree of Life Version                .

Weird English, Olde English, Anachronistic English Translations:

Accurate New Testament       ...what? so [We] will say [We] may continue [in] the offense that The Favor may increase not [It] may become Who* [We] die [to] the offense how? still [We] will live in her...

Alpha & Omega Bible            WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? ARE WE TO CONTINUE IN SIN SO THAT GRACE MAY INCREASE?

MAY IT NEVER BE! HOW SHALL WE WHO DIED TO SIN STILL LIVE IN IT? †(See verse 15)
(Many people try to claim that because we are no longer "under the law, but under grace" that we are permitted to freely sin, and commit such abominations as homosexuality, and observe ancient pagan Islamic holidays such as Christmas & Easter and to partake in other satanic holidays such as Halloween. But the truth is, the Blood of Jesus and the New Covenant does not permit us to live wickedly & compromise with the devil & deception.) [Kukis note: The translator of the A&O Bible tends toward legalism.

Awful Scroll Bible                   What will we say then? Will we continue-in missing-the-mark, in order that Grace may increase?

Would it not come about! How that we, which-certain died-away to misses-of-the-mark, will we live still from-within it?

Concordant Literal Version    What, then, shall we declare? That we may be persisting in sin that grace should be increasing?

May it not be coming to that! We, who died to sin, how shall we still be living in it?

exeGeses companion Bible   DEAD TO SIN, ALIVE IN THE MESSIAH

So what say we?

Abide we in sin that charism superabound?

So be it not!

We who died to sin, how live we still therein?

God’s Truth (Tyndale)           .

Orthodox Jewish Bible           What then shall we say? Are we to persist in Chet (sin) in order that the unmerited Chen v'Chesed Hashem might increase?

Chas v'shalom! Vi-bahlt (since) we have died to Chet, how can we still live in it?

Rotherham’s Emphasized B. Whatˎ thenˎ shall we say?

    Are we still to continue in sinˎ that |favour| may abound?

Far be it!

    <We who have died unto sin> how |any longer| shall we live therein?

Expanded/Embellished Bibles:

The Amplified Bible                .

An Understandable Version   What shall we say, then? Should we continue sinning so that more of God’s unearned favor will [have to] be shown? Certainly not! How can we, who died to sin [i.e., stopped living under its power], go on living in it [i.e., practicing it] any longer?

Benjamin Brodie’s trans.       What, then, shall we conclude? Shall we continue to embrace a lifestyle of sin so that grace may abound?

May it never happen! Since we have died to the sin nature [positionally], how can we still keep on living in it [experientially]?

The Expanded Bible              .

Jonathan Mitchell NT             What, then (or: consequently), shall we continue saying (or: declaring)? Should we continue prolonging our remaining (or: May we stay longer, remain on, habitually abide or persist) in the Sin (with the failure; by the missing of the target; centered in the error; in relation to the deviation from the goal), to the end that the Grace and Favor may increase to be more than enough?

Certainly not (May it not come to be; May it not happen)! We, the very ones who once died by the Sin (or: died with the Sin; die in deviation; died with reference to missing the target; died to failure; die in error), how shall we [other MSS: could we] still (or: yet) continue living within it, centered in it, or in union with it?

P. Kretzmann Commentary    .

Syndein/Thieme                     .

Translation for Translators     .

The Voice                               .

Bible Translations with Many Footnotes:

Lexham Bible                         .

NET Bible®                             .

New American Bible (2011)   .

The Passion Translation        .

Rotherham’s Emphasized B. .

The Spoken English NT         .

Wilbur Pickering’s New T.     Newness of life
So what shall we say? Shall we continue in the sin so that the grace may abound?

Of course not! How can we who died to sin keep on living in it?

WEB — Messianic Edition       .

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A Faithful Version                  .

Analytical-Literal Translation  .

Berean Literal Bible                .

Bill Puryear translation           Therefore, what are we to conclude? Are we to continue in [the sovereignty of] the sin nature, in order that grace might increase?

Emphatically not! We who have died to the sin nature, how shall we still live with it?

C. Thomson updated NT        .

Charles Thomson NT             What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that favour may abound?

No, by no means. With respect to us who have died to sin, how can we any more live therein?

Context Group Version          What shall we say then? Shall we continue in disgrace, that favor may abound? Absolutely not. We who died to disgrace, how shall we any longer live in it?

English Standard Version      .

Far Above All Translation       .

Green’s Literal Translation    .

James Allen translation          .

Legacy Standard Bible           .

Literal New Testament           .

Literal Standard Version        .

Modern English Version         .

Modern Literal Version 2020  Therefore what will we say? Are we remaining in sin, in-order-that grace {Or: favor; and so elsewhere in the letters to the congregations} may increase?

Let it not happen! We who died to sin, how will we still be living in it?

New American Standard B.    .

New European Version          .

New King James Version       .

New Matthew Bible                .

NT (Variant Readings)           .

Niobi Study Bible                   .

R. B. Thieme, Jr. translation  Therefore what are we to conclude? Are we to continue in the sovereignty of the sin nature in order that the grace of God might increase?

Emphatically not! We who have died to the sin nature, how shall we still live in it?

R. B. Thieme, Jr. trans2         Therefore to what conclusion are we forced? Are we to continue under the sphere of the sovereignty of Adam’s Sinful Trend the Old Sin Nature in rulership of Human Life through Spiritual Death, in order that the grace of God might be increase? Definitely or Emphatically NOT, or Hell NO, it is wrong and I will prove it! For we, the very one’s, who have, under retroactive positional truth from the Baptism of God the Holy Spirit, died to the sovereignty of the Old Sin Nature over Human Life, how shall we, believers, still continue to live in the power of it?

Revised Geneva Translation  .

Updated Bible Version 2.17   .

A Voice in the Wilderness      . he who died

Webster’s Translation           .

World English Bible                .

Worrell New Testament         .

The gist of this passage: 

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Translation: What therefore will we say?

Literally, this reads, what will we say therefore? But the idea is, Paul has made some statements in the previous chapter, and he is saying, do we come to this conclusion? Or, to what conclusion are we forced?

Translation: Should we continue in sin that grace may superabound [as a result]?

Many of the believers in the Roman church have come from very hedonistic backgrounds (obviously, not the Jews). There was alcohol and there was chasing. Could we draw a conclusion that people who are involved in such hedonistic activity should just keep on doing that because grace will abound all the more?

You see, Paul knows what he has said and he understands how it might be misapplied. Paul just wrote, in the previous two verses: Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 5:20–21; ESV) A person might take these words and conclude, “If grace keeps on abounding in greater amounts due to the committing of sins, shouldn’t I keep on sinning in order that God produce more grace? Even though that idea seems absurd to many of us, could not one draw that conclusion? Certainly. So Paul is going to head them off at the pass.

Romans 6:1 What therefore will we say? Should we continue in sin that grace may superabound [as a result]? (Kukis mostly literal translation)

Paul is drawing a faulty conclusion based upon what he just said.

Translation: May it never be!

I believe that we should understand this as a very strong negative response, even to the point of the idiom, hell, no! I do not like the rendering God forbid, as that seems to take God’s name in a trivial way (which is a sin).

Translation: We who have [positionally] died to sin,...

Paul now teaches retroactive positional truth and current positional truth. Retroactive positional truth is, we, having believed in Jesus Christ, identify with Him in His death and burial. That is, He died for our sins; and therefore, we should die to sin. Sins are obviously bad; we are here in this mess because of sin. How many of us have screwed up our own lives based upon the committing of sins?

There are many mentions of retroactive positional truth in this chapter. Therefore, I have included in the Addendum, the Doctrine of Retroactive Positional Truth (by R. B. Thieme, Jr.).

Even though Paul does not begin to delve into current positional truth yet, he will. Therefore, allow me to include my notes from The Doctrine of Current Positional Truth (by R. B. Thieme, Jr.).

Translation: ...how yet will we live in it? (Kukis mostly literal translation)

Paul asks, how yet will we live in sin? He is not specifying any sort of sin in particular. These can be sins in your thinking, sins that you express in speech, or sins which you commit.

Romans 6:2 May it never be! We who have [positionally] died to sin, how yet will we live in it? (Kukis mostly literal translation)

It makes no sense for a person who has died to sin (positionally speaking) to then continue living a life of sin. That is irrational and illogical.

Romans 6:1–2 What therefore will we say? Should we continue in sin that grace may superabound [as a result]? May it never be! We who have [positionally] died to sin, how yet will we live in it? (Kukis mostly literal translation)

Let’s approach this a different way. Positionally, when we believe, we are placed into union with Jesus Christ, spoken of throughout the epistles as being in Christ Paul uses this exact phrase over 80 times in his own writings (and there are additional instances where he writes in Him. What sense does it make to be positionally in Christ but then to live a life of sin?

Let me point out that all believers sin after salvation. God has provided us a way to get back into fellowship with Him by naming those sins or acknowledging those sins (this process is often given the name rebound). Paul is referencing a lifestyle of sin or a continuation of sin, remaining out of fellowship for long periods of time.

Let me also point out the following: for Paul to warn the believers in Rome against doing that, would suggest logically that there are believers in some places who have done this or who would do this. If no believer would even engage in a lifestyle of sin, why bother warning the Romans against doing that?

Romans 6:1–2 Therefore, to what conclusion are we forced? Should we keep on sinning so that more grace will keep on coming to us as a result? Absolutely not! We have positionally died to sin; how does it make sense for us to continue to live in it? (Kukis paraphrase)

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Here is how others have translated this passage:

Ancient texts:

Westcott-Hort Text (Greek)    Or are you [all] ignorant that as many [of us who] were baptized into Christ Jesus, into the death of Him we were baptized. We were buried, therefore, in Him through the baptism to the death, so that, just as was awakened Christ out from deaths through the glory of the Father, thus, even we, in newness of life, might walk.

Complete Apostles Bible        Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.

Douay-Rheims 1899 (Amer.) Know you not that all we who are baptized in Christ Jesus are baptized in his death?

For we are buried together with him by baptism into death: that, as Christ is risen from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life.

Holy Aramaic Scriptures        .

Original Aramaic NT              Or do you not know that those of us who were baptized into Yeshua The Messiah were baptized into his death?

We were buried with him in baptism into death, for as Yeshua The Messiah arose from among the dead in the glory of his Father, in this way also we shall walk in a new life.

Lamsa Peshitta (Syriac)         .

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Limited Vocabulary Translations:

Bible in Basic English             Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death? 

We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.

Bible in Worldwide English     All of us have been baptised in water. This means we are joined to Christ Jesus. We were baptised into his death. Do you know that?

We were buried when he was buried because we were baptised into his death. Christ was raised from death by the wonderful power of the Father. So we also must live a new life.

Easy English                          .

Easy-to-Read Version–2008  Did you forget that all of us became part of Christ Jesus when we were baptized? In our baptism we shared in his death. So when we were baptized, we were buried with Christ and took part in his death. And just as Christ was raised from death by the wonderful power of the Father, so we can now live a new life.

God’s Word™                         Don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? When we were baptized into his death, we were placed into the tomb with him. As Christ was brought back from death to life by the glorious power of the Father, so we, too, should live a new kind of life.

Good News Bible (TEV)         For surely you know that when we were baptized into union with Christ Jesus, we were baptized into union with his death. By our baptism, then, we were buried with him and shared his death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from death by the glorious power of the Father, so also we might live a new life.

J. B. Phillips                           .

The Message                         .

NIRV                                      .

New Life Version                    .

Radiant New Testament        .

New Simplified Bible              .

Thought-for-thought translations; dynamic translations; paraphrases:

Casual English Version          .

Contemporary English V.       Don't you know that all who share in Christ Jesus by being baptized also share in his death? When we were baptized, we died and were buried with Christ. We were baptized, so that we would live a new life, as Christ was raised to life by the glory of God the Father.

Goodspeed New Testament  .

The Living Bible                     .

New Berkeley Version           .

New Living Translation           .

The Passion Translation        Or have you forgotten that all of us who were immersed into union with Jesus, the Anointed One, were immersed into union with his death?  Sharing in his death by our baptism means that we were co-buried and entombed with him, so that when the Father’s glory raised Christ from the dead, we were also raised with him. We have been co-resurrected with him so that we could be empowered to walk in the freshness of new life.

Plain English Version             .

UnfoldingWord Simplified T.  When we were baptized in union with the Messiah Jesus, God viewed us as dying with the Messiah on his cross. Do you not know this? So, when we were baptized, God viewed us also as being with the Messiah in his tomb. God the Father used his power to raise the Messiah from the dead; in the same way, he made it possible for us to live life in a new way.

Williams’ New Testament      Or, do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into union with Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? So through baptism we have been buried with Him in death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glorious power, so we too should live an entirely new life.

Partially literal and partially paraphrased translations:

American English Bible          .

Beck’s American Translation .

Breakthrough Version            Or are you unaware that as many of us as were submerged into the Anointed King Jesus, were submerged into His death? So we were buried together with Him through the submersion into the death so that even as the Anointed King got up from the dead through the Father's magnificence, so also we might traipse around in newness of life.

Common English Bible           .

Len Gane Paraphrase           Don't you know that all who were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father's glory, even so we should also walk in newness of life.

A. Campbell's Living Oracles Do you not know, that as many as have been immersed into Jesus Christ, have been immersed into his death? We have been buried, then, together with him, by the immersion into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father; so we also shall walk in newness of life.

New Advent (Knox) Bible       .

NT for Everyone                     .

20^th Century New Testament Or can it be that you do not know that all of us, who were baptized into union with Christ Jesus, in our baptism shared his death? Consequently, through sharing his death in our baptism, we were buried with him; that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by a manifestation of the Father's power, so we also may live a new Life.

Mostly literal renderings (with some occasional paraphrasing):

An Understandable Version   .

Berean Study Bible                .

Christian Standard Bible        .

Conservapedia Translation    .

Revised Ferrar-Fenton Bible  .

Free Bible Version                 Don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Through baptism we were buried with him in death so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father we too can live a new life.

International Standard V        Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into union with the Messiah [Or Christ] Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore, through baptism we were buried with him into his death so that, just as the Messiah [Or Christ] was raised from the dead by the Father’s glory, we too may live an entirely new life.

Lexham Bible                         .

Montgomery NT                     .

NIV, ©2011                             .

Riverside New Testament      .

Leicester A. Sawyer’s NT      .

The Spoken English NT         .

UnfoldingWord Literal Text    .

Urim-Thummim Version         .

Weymouth New Testament    And do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Well, then, we by our baptism were buried with Him in death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from among the dead by the Father's glorious power, we also should live an entirely new life.

Wikipedia Bible Project          Do you not realize that every one of us who was baptized into Christ Jesus was baptized into his death? Just as through baptism we were buried with him in death, so too we are raised from the dead like Christ through the glory of the Father, so that we can live a brand-new life.

Worsley’s New Testament    .

Catholic Bibles (those having the imprimatur):

Christian Community (1988)  .

The Heritage Bible                 .

New American Bible (2011)   .

New Catholic Bible                 .

New Jerusalem Bible             .

NRSV (Anglicized Cath. Ed.) .

Revised English Bible–1989   .

Jewish/Hebrew Names Bibles:

Complete Jewish Bible           .

Hebraic Roots Bible               Or are you ignorant that all who were baptized into Messiah Yahshua were baptized into His death? Therefore, we were buried with Him through baptism into death that as Messiah was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life.

Holy New Covenant Trans.    You know that all of us were immersed into Christ Jesus. Don’t you know that we were immersed into his death? So through immersion, we were buried with him into death. Christ was raised from death through the glory of the Father. In the same way we will live a new life.

The Scriptures 2009              Or do you not know that as many of us as were immersed into Messiah יהושע were immersed into His death?  We were therefore buried with Him through immersion into death, that as Messiah was raised from the dead by the esteem of the Father, so also we should walk in newness of life.

Tree of Life Version                Or do you not know that all of us who were immersed into Messiah Yeshua were immersed into His death? Therefore we were buried together with Him through immersion into death—in order that just as Messiah was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

Weird English, Olde English, Anachronistic English Translations:

Accurate New Testament       ...or [You*] (not) understand for Who* [We] are washed to christ jesus to the death [of] him are washed [We] are buried (together) so [with] him through the washing to the death that as is raised Christ from [men] dead through the recognition [of] the father so and We in newness [of] life may walk...

Alpha & Omega Bible            OR DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT ALL OF US WHO HAVE BEEN IMMERSED/BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST JESUS HAVE BEEN IMMERSED/BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH?

THEREFORE WE HAVE BEEN BURIED WITH HIM THROUGH IMMERSION/BAPTISM INTO DEATH, SO THAT AS CHRIST WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD THROUGH THE GLORY OF THE FATHER, SO WE TOO MIGHT WALK IN NEWNESS OF LIFE.

Awful Scroll Bible                   Or understand yous not that, as many as are being baptized into Jesus the Anointed One, are being baptized into His death?

Therefore, we were being buried-with Him through baptism into death, in order that, wholly-as the Anointed One, is being risen up out of the dead by the Splendor of the Father, the same-as-this, we also may walk-about from-within Newness of Life.

Concordant Literal Version    Or are you ignorant that whoever are baptized into Christ Jesus, are baptized into His death?

We, then, were entombed together with Him through baptism into death, that, even as Christ was roused from among the dead through the glory of the Father, thus we also should be walking in newness of life."

exeGeses companion Bible   Or Know you not,

as many of us

as are baptized into Yah Shua Messiah

are baptized to his death?

So we are co-buried with him

through baptism into death:

so that, exactly as Messiah rose from the dead

through the glory of the Father,

even thus we also walk in newness of life.

God’s Truth (Tyndale)           .

Orthodox Jewish Bible           Or do you lack da’as that all we who were given a mikveh mayim tevilah into Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua were given a tevilah into Moshiach’s histalkus, into his mavet (death)?

So then we were co-buried, buried together with KIVRO (Moshiach’s kever, YESHAYAH 53:9) through a tevilah into mavet, in order that, just as Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach was given the Techiyah (Resurrection) from HaMesim (the Dead ones) through the Kavod HaAv, so we also should have a halakhah (walk [lifnei Hashem]) in hitkhadshut (renewal, regeneration), in Chayyim Chadashim (New Life).

Rotherham’s Emphasized B. .

Expanded/Embellished Bibles:

The Amplified Bible                .

An Understandable Version   Or, do you not know that all of us who were immersed into Christ Jesus were immersed into His death? Therefore, we were buried with Him through [our] immersion [in water] into [a relationship with] His death, so that, just like Christ was raised up from the dead through the glorious power of the Father, so we also can [be raised up from the water to] live a new life.

Brodie’s Expanded Trans.     Don’t you understand that as many as were placed into vital union with Christ Jesus [elect in Him in eternity past] were placed into vital union with His spiritual death [His sheep were united with Him on the cross]?

Therefore, we [the elect] have been buried with Him through the vital union [baptism of the Spirit] into His physical death, so that just as Christ was raised from deaths [both spiritual & physical] by the glory of the Father, in the same manner also, we might walk in newness of life .

The Expanded Bible              .

Jonathan Mitchell NT             Or are you continuing to be ignorant (are you remaining without experiential knowledge; do you continue not knowing) that as many of we who are immersed (or: were at one point baptized) into Christ Jesus are immersed (or: were then baptized) into His death?

We, then (or: consequently), were buried together (entombed together with funeral rites) in Him (or: by Him; with Him), through the immersion (baptism) into the death, to the end that just as (or: in the same manner as) Christ was roused and raised forth from out of the midst of dead folks THROUGH (through means of) THE GLORY (the glorious manifestation of splendor which calls forth praise; the notion; the renown; the reputation; the imagination) of The Father (or: which is the Father), thus also we can walk around (or: we also should likewise conduct ourselves and order our behavior) within newness of life (in union with life characterized by being new in kind and quality, and different from that which was former).

P. Kretzmann Commentary    .

Syndein/Thieme                     .

Translation for Translators     .

The Voice                               .

Bible Translations with Many Footnotes:

Lexham Bible                         Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may live a new way of life [Literally “in newness of life”]

NET Bible®                             .

New American Bible (2011)   .

The Passion Translation        .

Rotherham’s Emphasized B. Or know ye notˎ that ||weˎ as many as were immersed^f into Christ {Jesus}||^g |into his death| were immersed?

We wereˎ thereforeˎ buried together with himˎ^h through our immersion into his death,

    In order that—

<Just as Christ was raisedʹ from among the dead through the glory of the Father>

||So|| ||we also|| |in newness of life| should walk.

^f Ap: “Immersion.”

^g Gal. iii. 27.

^h Col. ii. 12.

The Spoken English NT         .

Wilbur Pickering’s New T.     Or are you unaware that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?¹ Therefore, we were buried with Him by means of that baptism into that death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by means of the Father’s glory, we also should walk in newness of life.

(1) In Paul’s day (at least) there were those who thought that the physical rite of circumcision was a passport to heaven. We have already seen in 2:25-29 that Paul rejects that notion—God looks on the heart. In our day there are those who think that the physical rite of water baptism is a similar passport, but we probably all know individuals who had their ‘bath’ and are now living for Satan—God looks on the heart. 1Corinthians 12:12-13 explains that it is the Holy Spirit who baptizes us into Christ: “. . . so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body.” If we become part of Christ’s body, then whatever happens to that body happens to us. If that body died, we did. If it was buried, so were we. If it was raised from the dead, we will be too. Correction—we already have new life in Christ, and are to live on that basis.

WEB — Messianic Edition       .

Literal, almost word-for-word, renderings:

A Faithful Version                  .

Analytical-Literal Translation  Or do you_p fail to understand that we, as many as were baptized [or, immersed] into Christ Jesus, were baptized into His death? Therefore, we were buried together with Him through the baptism [or, immersion] into death, so that even as Christ was raised up from [the] dead through the glory of the Father, so also we should walk about [fig., conduct ourselves] in newness of life.

Berean Literal Bible                .

Bill Puryear translation           Or are you ignorant that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His [spiritual] death?

Therefore, we have been buried together with Him through baptism into His death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of life.

C. Thomson updated NT        .

Charles Thomson NT             .

Context Group Version          Or are you (pl) ignorant that as many of us as were immersed into the Anointed Jesus were immersed into his death? We were buried therefore with him through immersion into death: that like the Anointed was raised from the dead through the public honor of the Father, in the same way we also might walk in newness of life.

English Standard Version      .

Far Above All Translation       .

Green’s Literal Translation    .

James Allen translation          .

Legacy Standard Bible           .

Literal New Testament           .

Literal Standard Version        .

Modern English Version         .

Modern Literal Version 2020  Or are you° ignorant that as many as were immersed* into Christ Jesus were immersed* into his death?

Therefore we were buried together-with him through the immersion* into his death; in-order-that just-like Christ was raised up from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we might also walk in newness of life.

New American Standard        .

New European Version          .

New King James Version       .

New Matthew Bible                .

NT (Variant Readings)           .

Niobi Study Bible                   .

R. B. Thieme, Jr. translation  Or are you ignorant that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus, into His spiritual death have been baptized?

Therefore, we have been buried together with Him [Christ] through baptism of the Spirit into His [physical] death: in order that as Christ has been raised up from deaths [spiritual & physical] to the glory of God the Father, so also we might [potentially] walk in newness of life.

R. B. Thieme, Jr. trans2         For are you so ignorant or do you not know, that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus, we have been baptized therefore into his spiritual death (Identified with the Forgiveness of Sin and REJECTION OF GOOD AND EVIL) Therefore, in conclusion, we have been united and buried together with him, Jesus of Nazareth, The Christ, through the Baptism of God the Holy Spirit into his physical death resulting in retroactive positional truth in order that just as Christ has been raised up or resurrected from deaths through the glory of all the attributes of God the Father, so also we believers might have balance, coordination, orientation and purpose to walk in astonishing or extraordinary life free from the rule of the Old Sin Nature (Modus Operandi of the Divine Dynasphere, Spiritual Advance is NOT POSSIBLE WITH GOOD AND EVIL TAGGING ALONG).

Revised Geneva Translation  .

Updated Bible Version 2.17   .

A Voice in the Wilderness      .

Webster’s Translation           .

World English Bible                .

Worrell New Testament         .

The gist of this passage: 

3-4

Translation: Or, are you [all] ignorant that as many [of us who] were baptized into Christ Jesus, we were [also] baptized into His death.

Baptism, at its heart, means immersion on the one hand; it also means complete and total identification on the other. If you focus on the first understanding but not the second, then you really miss out on the meaning and the application.

Furthermore, baptism is not confined to a ritual involving a baptismal, like or river. There are at least seven kinds of baptisms in Scripture. If you are focused on water baptism right now, then you are not getting this passage. First of all, being immersed does not mean that you have been baptized. In the baptism of Moses, found in 1Corinthians 10:1–2, the children of Israel are identified with Moses (they were baptized into Moses) as they pass through the Sea of Reeds. The army of pharaoh was immersed in the waters of the Sea of Reeds, so they all died. The baptism of fire, wherein all unbelievers are removed from the earth at the end of the Tribulation involves no water whatsoever. And here, although one might want to understand this to refer to water baptism (which is okay, as long as you understand what it represents); this is actually Spirit baptism, where we are all baptized into Christ (1Corinthians 12:13 Galatians 3 Colossians 2:12 Ephesians 4:5). At the moment of salvation, every believer is placed into Jesus Christ.

In the book of Acts, this is sometimes presented as separate from salvation, because, there were many people in Acts who believed in the Revealed God or even believed in Jesus Christ, but had not yet been baptized into Christ because Christ was not yet risen when they believed. So, when Peter spoke on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2, those who believed right then and there also received the Holy Spirit right then and there and also were baptized into Christ right then and there. There may have been some people there listening to Peter who already believed in the Revealed God or already believed in Jesus. However, when they heard Peter, they were given the Holy Spirit as well (something similar to this took place several times in the book of Acts). See Acts 2 (HTML) (PDF) (WPD); Acts 8 (HTML) (PDF) (WPD); Acts 10 (HTML) (PDF) (WPD); Acts 19 (HTML) (PDF) (WPD).

For more information, see the Seven Baptisms in Scripture (by R. B. Thieme, Jr.) in the Addendum.

Romans 6:3 Or, are you [all] ignorant that as many [of us who] were baptized into Christ Jesus, we were [also] baptized into His death. (Kukis mostly literal translation)

At salvation, we were all baptized into Christ. This was the work of the Holy Spirit. This means that we are initially identified with Christ in his death. We are speaking logically, as everything that takes place at salvation takes place simultaneously.

When we are water baptized (which is not necessarily a ritual that is perpetuated into the post-canon era of the Church Age), we are placed under the water. This identifies us with Christ in His death and burial, which is known as retroactive positional truth.

Translation: Accordingly, we were buried with Him through the baptism to death,...

At salvation, we die with Jesus Christ and we are buried with Him (that is, we are identified with Him when the Holy Spirit baptizes us into Christ).

Translation: ...so that, just as Christ was resurrected out from deaths (through the glorious [power] of the Father),...

Jesus is resurrected out from deaths (Jesus died twice on the cross; first spiritually—dying for our sins; and then when this had been finished, He died physically).

Jesus is said to be raised by the glory of the Father. This glory represents all the God is; and this includes His omnipotence, which includes His ability (of power) to raise Jesus up from the dead.

As an aside, by raising Jesus up from the dead, God is giving His approval for what Jesus did on our behalf on the cross.

Translation: ...so that we might walk in newness of life. (Kukis mostly literal translation)

Walking in the Christian life simply refers to one’s living the Christian life; one’s active participation in the Christian life. This means that we grow by means of taking in Bible doctrine, that we are filled with the Holy Spirit through rebound, and we move toward spiritual maturity through these two power options in the Christian life.

See James Rickard’s Doctrine of Walking, which has been placed in the Addendum.

Romans 6:4 Accordingly, we were buried with Him through the baptism to death, so that, just as Christ was resurrected out from deaths (through the glorious [power] of the Father), so that we might walk in newness of life. (Kukis mostly literal translation)

When we are baptized into Christ, we are identified with Him in His death and burial (retroactive positional truth) and we are identified with His resurrection, ascension and session (which is known as current positional truth). Our truth in the Christian life, post salvation, is the Christian walk.

Romans 6:3–4 Or, are you [all] ignorant that as many [of us who] were baptized into Christ Jesus, we were [also] baptized into His death. Accordingly, we were buried with Him through the baptism to death, so that, just as Christ was resurrected out from deaths (through the glorious [power] of the Father), so that we might walk in newness of life. (Kukis mostly literal translation)

Romans 6:3–4 Do you not realize that, when we were baptized into Christ Jesus and that we were baptized into His death? Accordingly, we were buried with Him, positionally, in this baptism of death. Therefore, when Christ was resurrected from deaths, through God the Father’s glorios power, we were also resurrected with Him so that we might walk in newness of life. (Kukis paraphrase)

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I struggled with the translation of this, particularly in vv. 6b-7, carefully observing what others have done (I don’t know that I could have put together the full translation apart from that). I believe that my paraphrase is the correct interpretation, but there were some words in the genitive/ablative case which I treated more as if in the dative, locative or instrumental case. Also in v. 7, I added the words to sin and was unsure of how to translate the verb in v. 7 (it is found both ways in the various translations). I made that selection based upon how I perceived Paul’s overall argument/logic of vv. 5–7.

After comparing my translation to its interpretation (the commentary), I believe that I have the essentials of this passage correctly rendered. The interpretation fits very neatly with what has come before and what will follow.

Here is how others have translated this passage:

Ancient texts:

Westcott-Hort Text (Greek)    For if born together we have become in the likeness of the death of Him, but even of the standing again we will be. This knowing that the old man of us was crucified that might be made useless the body of the sin of [Him], not any more to keep on serving us in sin. For the dying (one) had made righteous away from the sin.

Complete Apostles Bible        For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be in the likeness of His resurrection;

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, so that the body of sin may be done away with, that we should no longer serve sin.

For he who has died has been justified from sin.

Douay-Rheims 1899 (Amer.) For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer.

For he that is dead is justified from sin.

Holy Aramaic Scriptures        .

Original Aramaic NT              For if we have been planted as one with him in the likeness of his death, in this way also we shall be in his resurrection.

For we know that our old person was crucified with him, that the body of sin would be destroyed, that we shall not again serve sin.

For whoever is dead has been freed from sin.

Lamsa Peshitta (Syriac)         .

Significant differences: 

Limited Vocabulary Translations:

Bible in Basic English             For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again; 

Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin. 

Because he who is dead is free from sin.

Bible in Worldwide English     Have we shared with Christ and died as he died? Then we shall share with him by rising from death as he arose.

We know this is true. The old person we used to be was nailed to the cross with him, so that our bodies which do wrong things would die. Then we will no longer be like slaves to the wrong things we used to do.

Anyone who has died no longer does wrong things.

Easy English                          .

Easy-to-Read Version–2008  Christ died, and we have been joined with him by dying too. So we will also be joined with him by rising from death as he did. We know that our old life was put to death on the cross with Christ. This happened so that our sinful selves would have no power over us. Then we would not be slaves to sin. Anyone who has died is made free from sin's control.

God’s Word™                         If we've become united with him in a death like his, certainly we will also be united with him when we come back to life as he did. We know that the person we used to be was crucified with him to put an end to sin in our bodies. Because of this we are no longer slaves to sin. The person who has died has been freed from sin.

Good News Bible (TEV)         For since we have become one with him in dying as he did, in the same way we shall be one with him by being raised to life as he was. And we know that our old being has been put to death with Christ on his cross, in order that the power of the sinful self might be destroyed, so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin. For when we die, we are set free from the power of sin.

J. B. Phillips                           .

The Message                         .

NIRV                                      .

New Life Version                    .

Radiant New Testament        .

New Simplified Bible              .

Thought-for-thought translations; dynamic translations; paraphrases:

Casual English Version          .

Contemporary English V.       If we shared in Jesus' death by being baptized, we will be raised to life with him. We know that the persons we used to be were nailed to the cross with Jesus. This was done, so that our sinful bodies would no longer be the slaves of sin. We know that sin doesn't have power over dead people.

Goodspeed New Testament  .

The Living Bible                     .

New Berkeley Version           .

New Living Translation           .

The Passion Translation        For since we are permanently grafted into him to experience a death like his, then we are permanently grafted into him to experience a resurrection like his and the new life that it imparts.  Could it be any clearer that our former identity is now and forever deprived of its power? For we were co-crucified with him to dismantle the stronghold of sin within us, so that we would not continue to live one moment longer submitted to sin’s power.  Obviously, a dead person is incapable of sinning.

Plain English Version             .

UnfoldingWord Simplified T.  Since God views us as joining with the Messiah when he died, he will also make us rise with him from the dead. God views us sinners as having died on the cross with the Messiah, in order to put an end to our sinful nature. As a result, we no longer have to sin. For whoever has died no longer has to sin.

Williams’ New Testament      For if we have grown into fellowship with Him by sharing a death like His, surely we shall share a resurrection life like His, for we know that our former self was crucified with Him, to make our body that is liable to sin inactive, so that we might not a moment longer continue to be slaves to sin. For when a man is dead, he is freed from the claims of sin.

Partially literal and partially paraphrased translations:

American English Bible          .

Beck’s American Translation .

Breakthrough Version            You see, if we have become integrated into the likeness of His death, still we will also be integrated into the likeness of His return back to life, knowing this, that our former person was nailed to a cross together with Him so that the body of the sin might be rendered useless, of the "no longer for us to be a slave to the sin" kind; for the one who died has been shown to be right out of the sin.

Common English Bible           .

Len Gane Paraphrase           For if we have been united in the likeness of his death, even more so we will be [in the likeness] of his resurrection. We know that our old nature is crucified with him, so that the body of sin would be destroyed, this [happened] so we would no longer serve sin. Indeed the one who has died is freed from sin.

A. Campbell's Living Oracles For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death; we shall then, also, certainly be in the likeness of his resurrection. Knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should not any longer serve sin: for he that has died is released from sin.

New Advent (Knox) Bible       .

NT for Everyone                     .

20^th Century New Testament If we have become united with him by the act symbolic of his death, surely we shall also become united with him by the act symbolic of his resurrection. We recognize the truth that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the body, the stronghold of Sin, might be rendered powerless, so that we should no longer be slaves to Sin. For the man who has so died has been pronounced righteous and released from Sin.

Mostly literal renderings (with some occasional paraphrasing):

An Understandable Version   .

Berean Study Bible                .

Christian Standard Bible        .

Conservapedia Translation    .

Revised Ferrar-Fenton Bible  .

Free Bible Version                 If we’ve become one with him in dying like he did, then we’ll be raised like him too. We know that our old self was crucified with him to dispose of the dead body of sin so that we wouldn’t be enslaved by sin any longer. Anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

International Standard V        For if we have become united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. We know that our old natures were crucified with him so that our sin-laden bodies might be rendered powerless and we might no longer be slaves to sin. For the person who has died has been freed from sin.

Lexham Bible                         .

Montgomery NT                     .

NIV, ©2011                             .

Riverside New Testament      For if we have grown into union with him by the likeness of his death, surely we shall be united with him by the likeness of his resurrection. For we know this, that our old-time humanity was crucified with him, in order that the sinful body might be made powerless, that we might no longer be slaves of sin. For one who has died has been pronounced righteous and free from sin.

Leicester A. Sawyer’s NT      .

The Spoken English NT         .

UnfoldingWord Literal Text    . with respect

Urim-Thummim Version         Because if we have appeared in history together in the likeness of his death, we will also appear in history in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed so that from then on we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Weymouth New Testament    For since we have become one with Him by sharing in His death, we shall also be one with Him by sharing in His resurrection. This we know--that our old self was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our sinful nature might be deprived of its power, so that we should no longer be the slaves of sin; for he who has paid the penalty of death stands absolved from his sin.

Wikipedia Bible Project          .

Worsley’s New Testament    . resemblance

Catholic Bibles (those having the imprimatur):

Christian Community (1988)  .

The Heritage Bible                 .

New American Bible (2011)   .

New Catholic Bible                 .

New Jerusalem Bible             .

NRSV (Anglicized Cath. Ed.) .

Revised English Bible–1989   .

Jewish/Hebrew Names Bibles:

Complete Jewish Bible           .

Hebraic Roots Bible               .

Holy New Covenant Trans.    Because if we have been planted with Christ, dying as he died, we will also be raised to life with him. We know that our sinful selves were nailed to the cross with Christ so that the body of sin would lose its power, so that sin will no longer be used to make us slaves to sin. A person who dies has been set free from sin.

The Scriptures 2009              .

Tree of Life Version                .

Weird English, Olde English, Anachronistic English Translations:

Accurate New Testament       ...if for Grown (Together) [We] have become [in] the appearance [of] the death [of] him but and {in it} [of] the standing (up) [We] will be this Knowing for The Old [of] us Man is crucified (together) that may be released The Body [of] the offense the+ no more to serve us the offense The [Man] for Dying has been justified from the offense...

Alpha & Omega Bible            .

Awful Scroll Bible                   For, if we have become grown-together in the likeness of His death, we will be all the same also in the rising-up;

coming to understand the same-as-this, certainly-of-which our old aspects-of-man is being impaled-with Him, in order that, the body of misses-of-the-mark, shall be rendered-accordingly-idle, yet- are we -not to enslave to misses-of-the-mark.

For he dying-away, has been made righteous away from missing-the-mark.

Concordant Literal Version    For if we have become planted together in the likeness of His death, nevertheless we shall be of the resurrection also, knowing this, that our old humanity was crucified together with Him, that the body of Sin may be nullified, for us by no means to be still slaving for Sin, for one who dies has been justified from Sin.

exeGeses companion Bible   For if we become co-planted

in the likeness of his death,

thus we also become