Romans 6:8-13

6:8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 6:9 We know ¹  that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die ²  again; death no longer has mastery over him. 6:10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God. 6:11 So you too consider yourselves ³  dead to sin, but ⁴  alive to God in Christ Jesus.

6:12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires, 6:13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments ⁵  to be used for unrighteousness, ⁶  but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments ⁷  to be used for righteousness.

¹ tn Grk “knowing.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

² tn The present tense here has been translated as a futuristic present (see ExSyn 536, where this verse is listed as an example).

³ tc ‡ Some Alexandrian and Byzantine mss (Ì^94vid א* B C 81 365 1506 1739 1881 pc) have the infinitive “to be” (εἶναι, einai) following “yourselves”. The infinitive is lacking from some mss of the Alexandrian and Western texttypes (Ì^46vid A D*^,c F G 33^vid pc). The infinitive is found elsewhere in the majority of Byzantine mss, suggesting a scribal tendency toward clarification. The lack of infinitive best explains the rise of the other readings. The meaning of the passage is not significantly altered by inclusion or omission, but on internal grounds omission is more likely. NA²⁷ includes the infinitive in brackets, indicating doubt as to its authenticity.

⁴ tn Greek emphasizes the contrast between these two clauses more than can be easily expressed in English.

⁵ tn Or “weapons, tools.”

⁶ tn Or “wickedness, injustice.”

⁷ tn Or “weapons, tools.”