Romans · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Romans 6 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
1 Τι λοιπόν θέλομεν ειπεί; θέλομεν επιμένει εν τη αμαρτία, διά να περισσεύση η χάρις;
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 Μη γένοιτο· ημείς, οίτινες απεθάνομεν κατά την αμαρτίαν, πως θέλομεν ζήσει πλέον εν αυτή;
2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
3 Η αγνοείτε ότι όσοι εβαπτίσθημεν εις Χριστόν Ιησούν, εις τον θάνατον αυτού εβαπτίσθημεν;
3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 Συνετάφημεν λοιπόν μετ' αυτού διά του βαπτίσματος εις τον θάνατον, ίνα καθώς ο Χριστός ανέστη εκ νεκρών διά της δόξης του Πατρός, ούτω και ημείς περιπατήσωμεν εις νέαν ζωήν.
4 We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
5 Διότι εάν εγείναμεν σύμφυτοι με αυτόν κατά την ομοιότητα του θανάτου αυτού, θέλομεν είσθαι και κατά την ομοιότητα της αναστάσεως,
5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
6 τούτο γινώσκοντες, ότι ο παλαιός ημών άνθρωπος συνεσταυρώθη, διά να καταργηθή το σώμα της αμαρτίας, ώστε να μη ήμεθα πλέον δούλοι της αμαρτίας·
6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
7 διότι ο αποθανών ηλευθερώθη από της αμαρτίας.
7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
8 Εάν δε απεθάνομεν μετά του Χριστού, πιστεύομεν ότι και θέλομεν συζήσει μετ' αυτού,
8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him,
9 γινώσκοντες ότι ο Χριστός αναστάς εκ νεκρών δεν αποθνήσκει πλέον, θάνατος αυτόν δεν κυριεύει πλέον.
9 knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over him!
10 Διότι καθ' ο απέθανεν, απέθανεν άπαξ διά την αμαρτίαν, αλλά καθ' ο ζη, ζη εις τον Θεόν.
10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
11 Ούτω και σεις φρονείτε εαυτούς ότι είσθε νεκροί μεν κατά την αμαρτίαν, ζώντες δε εις τον Θεόν διά Ιησού Χριστού του Κυρίου ημών.
11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12 Ας μη βασιλεύη λοιπόν η αμαρτία εν τω θνητώ υμών σώματι, ώστε κατά τας επιθυμίας αυτού να υπακούητε εις αυτήν,
12 Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
13 μηδέ παριστάνετε τα μέλη σας όπλα αδικίας εις την αμαρτίαν, αλλά παραστήσατε εαυτούς εις τον Θεόν ως ζώντας εκ νεκρών, και τα μέλη σας όπλα δικαιοσύνης εις τον Θεόν.
13 Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
14 Διότι η αμαρτία δεν θέλει σας κυριεύσει· επειδή δεν είσθε υπό νόμον, αλλ' υπό χάριν.
14 For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.
15 Τι λοιπόν; θέλομεν αμαρτήσει διότι δεν είμεθα υπό νόμον, αλλ' υπό χάριν; μη γένοιτο.
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
16 Δεν εξεύρετε ότι εις όντινα παριστάνετε εαυτούς δούλους προς υπακοήν, είσθε δούλοι εκείνου εις τον οποίον υπακούετε, ή της αμαρτίας προς θάνατον ή της υπακοής προς δικαιοσύνην;
16 Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
17 Χάρις όμως εις τον Θεόν, διότι υπήρχετε δούλοι της αμαρτίας, πλην υπηκούσατε εκ καρδίας εις τον τύπον της διδαχής, εις τον οποίον παρεδόθητε,
17 But thanks be to God that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
18 ελευθερωθέντες δε από της αμαρτίας, εδουλώθητε εις την δικαιοσύνην·
18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
19 ανθρωπίνως λέγω διά την ασθένειαν της σαρκός σας. Διότι καθώς παρεστήσατε τα μέλη σας δούλα εις την ακαθαρσίαν και εις την ανομίαν προς την ανομίαν, ούτω τώρα παραστήσατε τα μέλη σας δούλα εις την δικαιοσύνην προς αγιασμόν.
19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
20 Διότι ότε υπήρχετε δούλοι της αμαρτίας, υπήρχετε ελεύθεροι από της δικαιοσύνης.
20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
21 Τίνα λοιπόν καρπόν είχετε τότε εξ εκείνων των έργων, διά τα οποία τώρα αισχύνεσθε; διότι το τέλος εκείνων είναι θάνατος.
21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22 Αλλά τώρα ελευθερωθέντες από της αμαρτίας και δουλωθέντες εις τον Θεόν, έχετε τον καρπόν σας εις αγιασμόν, το δε τέλος ζωήν αιώνιον.
22 But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.
23 Διότι ο μισθός της αμαρτίας είναι θάνατος, το δε χάρισμα του Θεού ζωή αιώνιος διά Ιησού Χριστού του Κυρίου ημών.
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Peter 2:16; Galatians 5:13; Romans 6:15; Romans 2:4; Romans 3:5–8
- 2 1 John 3:9; Colossians 3:3; 1 Peter 2:24; Romans 7:4; Galatians 2:19
- 3 Galatians 3:27; Galatians 2:20–21; Romans 6:8; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Romans 6:4–5
- 4 2 Corinthians 5:17; Colossians 3:10; Ephesians 4:22–24; 1 Peter 3:21; Romans 7:6
- 5 Philippians 3:10–11; Colossians 2:12; 2 Corinthians 4:10; Colossians 3:1; Romans 6:8–12
- 6 Galatians 2:20; Galatians 5:24; Ephesians 4:22; Galatians 6:14; John 8:34–36
- 7 1 Peter 4:1; Romans 8:1; Romans 7:4; Colossians 3:1–3; Romans 6:8
- 8 2 Timothy 2:11–12; Colossians 3:3–4; 2 Corinthians 4:10–14; 2 Corinthians 13:4; John 14:19
- 9 Romans 6:14; Revelation 1:18; Acts 2:24–28; Hebrews 10:12–13; Hebrews 2:14–15
- 10 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 3:18; 1 Peter 4:6; 2 Corinthians 5:15; Hebrews 9:26–28
- 11 Colossians 3:3–5; 1 Corinthians 6:20; Romans 6:2; Colossians 3:17; Romans 6:13
- 12 Galatians 5:16; Romans 6:16; 1 John 2:15–17; Galatians 5:24; Romans 8:13
- 13 Romans 12:1; Romans 6:16; Colossians 3:5; 1 Peter 2:24; Romans 7:5
- 14 Galatians 5:18; Romans 8:2; Romans 7:4–11; Hebrews 8:10; Galatians 4:4–5
- 15 Titus 2:11–14; Ephesians 2:8–10; Romans 6:1–2; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Jude 4
- 16 John 8:34; Matthew 6:24; Joshua 24:15; 2 Peter 2:19; Romans 6:12–13
- 17 1 Peter 2:9; 2 Timothy 1:13; 2 Corinthians 2:14; Ephesians 2:5–10; Romans 16:26
- 18 Romans 6:22; Galatians 5:1; Romans 8:2; John 8:32; Romans 6:7
- 19 Romans 6:13; 1 Peter 4:2–4; Colossians 3:5–7; Ephesians 2:2–3; 1 Corinthians 6:11
- 20 Romans 6:16–17; John 8:34
- 21 Romans 1:32; Romans 7:5; Romans 6:23; Galatians 6:7–8; Proverbs 14:12
- 22 1 Peter 2:16; Romans 6:18; Romans 8:2; Galatians 5:13; John 8:32
- 23 John 3:36; Romans 5:12; James 1:15; John 6:40; Ezekiel 18:20
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
What I had before occasion to remark, that I mention here too, that he continually digresseth into exhortation, without making any twofold division as he does in the other Epistles, and setting apart the former portion for doctrines, and the latter for the care of moral instruction.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 11 (1889)
… up into heaven, as he himself [Paul] says: "But at the same time, [it, is] Christ [that] died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God." And again, "Knowing that Christ, rising from the dead, dieth no more:" for, as himself foreseeing, through the Spirit, the subdivisions of evil teachers [with regard to …
… thy soul by pleasing God." Our body, too, as a sacrifice when we chasten it by temperance, if we do so as we ought, for God's sake, that we may not yield our members instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but instruments of righteousness unto God. Exhorting to this sacrifice, the apostle says, "I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercy …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Hear, for instance, how of those passions Paul is ashamed, even after his deliverance from them, saying, "For what fruit had ye then in those things, whereof ye are now ashamed?" But virtue, even after his labor, he affirms to be light, calling the laboriousness of our affliction momentary and "light," and rejoicing in his sufferings, and glorying in his …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
For if thou hast been united with the likeness of the Saviour's death, thou shalt also be deemed worthy of His Resurrection.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)