Dead To Sin, Alive In Christ (Romans 6:1-7) Living Bible and Amplified Translations

ROMANS 6:1-7    LIVING BIBLE TRANSLATION 

1    Well then, shall we keep on sinning so that God can keep on showing us more and more kindness and forgiveness?

2-3  Of course not! Should we keep on sinning when we don’t have to? For sin’s power over us was broken when we became Christians and were baptized to become a part of Jesus Christ; through his death the power of your sinful nature was shattered. 
4    Your old sin-loving nature was buried with him by baptism when he died; and when God the Father, with glorious power, brought him back to life again, you were given his wonderful new life to enjoy.
5    For you have become a part of him, and so you died with him, so to speak, when he died; and now you share his new life and shall rise as he did. 
6    Your old evil desires were nailed to the cross with him; that part of you that loves to sin was crushed and fatally wounded, so that your sin-loving body is no longer under sin’s control, no longer needs to be a slave to sin; 
7    for when you are deadened to sin you are freed from all its allure and its power over you. 

ROMANS 6:1-7   AMPLIFIED TRANSLATION

1   What shall we say [to all this]? Are we to remain in sin in order that God’s grace (favor and mercy) may multiply and overflow?

2   Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?

3   Are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

4   We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power] of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in newness of life.

5   For if we have become one with Him by sharing a death like His, we shall also be [one with Him in sharing] His resurrection [by a new life lived for God].

6   We know that our old (unrenewed) self was nailed to the cross with Him in order that [our] body [which is the instrument] of sin might be made ineffective and inactive for evil, that we might no longer be the slaves of sin.

7   For when a man dies, he is freed (loosed, delivered) from [the power of] sin [among men].