Romans 6


Romans 6 is the sixth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle, while he was in Corinth in the mid 50s CE, with the help of an amanuensis, Tertius, who adds his own greeting in. In this chapter, it is shown that the Christian, in baptism, dies to sin.

Text

The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 23 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
From the beginning of this chapter, Paul addresses the 'plausible objection' that Christians should "continue in sin, that grace may abound". In, Paul had referred to slanderous reports to the effect that believers taught "Let us do evil that good may come". Similar indications can be found in, and.
Paul replies that believers should "certainly not continue in sin, that grace may abound". The phrase μη γενοιτο is regularly used by Paul; it is used 10 times in this epistle as well as in his other writings. The Pulpit Commentary describes the phrase as "Paul's usual way of rejecting an idea indignantly". The phrase has been translated in various forms:

Verse 23