Romans 6, Revised from "The Practice of the Way"

 

     What should we say then? Should we continue by the malfunction, so that the charity of the God would overflow? Absolutely not. Such ones as we who died to this malfunction, how would we still live by means of it? Or are you ignorant that, as many of us as were baptized into the Anointed Yeshua, were baptized into His death? We were then buried together with Him through this baptism into His death, so that just like the Anointed was raised from the dead through the reputation of the Father so also we should walk with a fresh quality of life. Because if we had become grown together with something that looks like His death, we will then be grown together with His resurrection also; recognizing this, that our old human being was crucified together with Him so that the organic structure of our malfunction would be shut down, with us no longer being enslaved to this malfunction; because the person who has died has been set right, parted from the malfunction. Yet if we died together with the Anointed, we believe that we will also be alive together with Him, knowing that the Anointed having been raised from the dead is no longer dying, death no longer has ownership of Him. Because the thing which died, died once and for all to the malfunction; yet should the thing live after that, it would be alive to the God. So also you calculate yourselves to be dead on the one hand to the malfunction yet living to the God by means of the Anointed, Yeshua.

      Don’t then let the malfunction reign within your body which is subject to death for the obedience to that body’s longings, neither offer the parts of your body weapons of wrong to the malfunction, but offer yourselves to God like alive from the dead and the parts of your body weapons of a right state of being to God. Because your malfunction will not have ownership of you; because you are not subject to the Torah but subject to the charity of God.

      What then? Should we screw up because we aren’t subject to the Torah but subject to the charity of the God? Absolutely not. Don’t you know that to whom you offer yourselves slaves for obedience, you are slaves to whom you obey, either of the malfunction resulting in death or of obedience resulting in a state of right being? Yet thanks to the God that you were slaves of the malfunction yet you obeyed from the heart as far as which type of teaching to which you were handed over, yet having been freed from the malfunction you were enslaved to a right state of being. I am speaking humanly because of the weakness of the soft tissues of your body. Because just like you offered the parts of your body slaves to being dirty and to this lawlessness resulting in the lawlessness you practiced, in this way now offer the parts of your body slaves to a right state of being resulting in a state of being holy. Because when you were slaves of the malfunction, you were free with respect to a state of right being. What fruit then did you possess at that time? By which you are at present ashamed, because the goal of those things is death? But at present having been freed from the malfunction yet having been enslaved to the God you have your fruit as far as a right state of being, and the result, the life of the Eternal One. Because the compensation you receive from working for the malfunction is death, yet the charitable gift of God is the life of the Eternal One by means of the Anointed, Yeshua our Owner.