Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ
1What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
5For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with,6:6 Or be rendered powerless that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
11In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an instrument of righteousness. 14For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
Slaves to Righteousness
15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! 16Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. 18You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
19I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. 20When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. 21What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in6:23 Or through Christ Jesus our Lord.
Kufa Na Kufufuka Pamoja Na Kristo
16:1 Rum 3:5, 6Tuseme nini basi? Je, tuendelee kutenda dhambi ili neema ipate kuongezeka? 26:2 Kol 3:5, 8La hasha! Sisi tulioifia dhambi, tutawezaje kuendelea kuishi tena katika dhambi? 36:3 Mt 28:19Au hamjui ya kuwa sisi sote tuliobatizwa katika Kristo Yesu tulibatizwa katika mauti yake? 46:4 Mdo 2:24; Kol 2:12; 2Kor 5:17; Gal 6:15Kwa hiyo tulizikwa pamoja naye kwa njia ya ubatizo katika mauti, ili kama vile Kristo alivyofufuliwa kutoka kwa wafu kwa utukufu wa Baba, vivyo hivyo sisi nasi pia tupate kuenenda katika upya wa uzima.
56:5 Efe 2:6; 2Tim 2:11Kwa maana ikiwa tumeungana naye katika mauti yake, bila shaka tutaungana naye katika ufufuo wake. 66:6 Gal 5:24; Kol 3:9; 2Kor 4:10; Gal 2:20; Rum 7:24Kwa maana twajua kwamba utu wetu wa kale ulisulubiwa pamoja naye ili ule mwili wa dhambi upate kuangamizwa, nasi tusiendelee kuwa tena watumwa wa dhambi. 76:7 1Pet 4:1; Rum 6:18Kwa maana mtu yeyote aliyekufa amehesabiwa haki mbali na dhambi.
86:8 Rum 6:5; 2Tim 2:11Basi ikiwa tulikufa pamoja na Kristo, tunaamini kwamba pia tutaishi pamoja naye. 96:9 Mdo 2:24; Ufu 1:18Kwa maana tunajua kwamba Kristo, kwa sababu alifufuliwa kutoka kwa wafu, hawezi kufa tena; mauti haina tena mamlaka juu yake. 106:10 Rum 6:2; Ebr 7:27; 9:26-28; Gal 2:19; 1Pet 3:18Kifo alichokufa, aliifia dhambi mara moja tu, lakini uzima alio nao anamwishia Mungu.
116:11 Rum 6:2; 2Kor 5:15; 1Pet 2:24Vivyo hivyo, jihesabuni wafu katika dhambi lakini mlio hai kwa Mungu katika Kristo Yesu. 126:12 Rum 6:16; Mwa 4:7; Za 19:13; 119:133Kwa hiyo, msiruhusu dhambi itawale ndani ya miili yenu, ipatikanayo na kufa, ili kuwafanya mzitii tamaa mbaya. 136:13 Rum 7:5; 2Kor 5:156:13 1Pet 2:24Wala msivitoe viungo vya miili yenu vitumike kama vyombo vya uovu vya kutenda dhambi, bali jitoeni kwa Mungu, kama watu waliotolewa kutoka mautini kuingia uzimani. Nanyi vitoeni viungo vya miili yenu kwake kama vyombo vya haki. 146:14 Rum 2:12; Gal 5:18; Rum 3:24Kwa maana dhambi haitakuwa na mamlaka juu yenu, kwa sababu hampo chini ya sheria, bali chini ya neema.
Watumwa Wa Haki
156:15 1Kor 9:21Ni nini basi? Je, tutende dhambi kwa kuwa hatuko chini ya sheria bali chini ya neema? La, hasha! 166:16 Za 51:5; 2Pet 2:19Je, hamjui kwamba mnapojitoa kwa mtu yeyote kama watumwa watiifu, ninyi ni watumwa wa yule mnayemtii, aidha watumwa wa dhambi, ambayo matokeo yake ni mauti, au watumwa wa utii ambao matokeo yake ni haki? 176:17 Rum 1:18; 2Kor 2:14; 2Tim 1:13Lakini Mungu ashukuriwe kwa kuwa ninyi ambao kwanza mlikuwa watumwa wa dhambi, mmekuwa watii kutoka moyoni kwa mafundisho mliyopewa. 186:18 Rum 8:2; 1Pet 4:1Nanyi, mkiisha kuwekwa huru mbali na dhambi, mmekuwa watumwa wa haki.
196:19 Rum 3:5; Gal 3:15Ninasema kwa namna ya kibinadamu kwa sababu ya udhaifu wenu wa hali ya asili. Kama vile mlivyokuwa mkivitoa viungo vya miili yenu kama watumwa wa mambo machafu na uovu uliokuwa ukiongezeka zaidi, hivyo sasa vitoeni viungo vyenu kama watumwa wa haki inayowaelekeza mpate kutakaswa. 206:20 Rum 6:16; Yn 8:34Mlipokuwa watumwa wa dhambi, mlikuwa hamtawaliwi na haki. 216:21 Rum 6:23; Eze 16:61, 63; Rum 8:6, 13Lakini mlipata faida gani kwa mambo hayo ambayo sasa mnayaonea aibu? Mwisho wa mambo hayo ni mauti. 226:22 1Pet 2:16Lakini sasa kwa kuwa mmewekwa huru mbali na dhambi na mmekuwa watumwa wa Mungu, faida mnayopata ni utakatifu, ambao mwisho wake ni uzima wa milele. 236:23 Mit 10:16; Yak 1:15; Mt 25:46Kwa maana mshahara wa dhambi ni mauti, bali karama ya Mungu ni uzima wa milele katika Kristo Yesu Bwana wetu.
