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# Romans 6

Romans 6 is chapter 6 of 16 in the Letter to the Romans. Here are all 23 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The Christian must die to sin and live to God.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Romans 6 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. So what shall we say? Should we remain in sin, so that grace may abound?
2. Let it not be so! For how can we who have died to sin still live in sin?
3. Do you not know that those of us who have been baptized in Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death?
4. For through baptism we have been buried with him into death, so that, in the manner that Christ rose from the dead, by the glory of the Father, so may we also walk in the newness of life.
5. For if we have been planted together, in the likeness of his death, so shall we also be, in the likeness of his resurrection.
6. For we know this: that our former selves have been crucified together with him, so that the body which is of sin may be destroyed, and moreover, so that we may no longer serve sin.
7. For he who has died has been justified from sin.
8. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live together with Christ.
9. For we know that Christ, in rising up from the dead, can no longer die: death no longer has dominion over him.
10. For in as much as he died for sin, he died once. But in as much as he lives, he lives for God.
11. And so, you should consider yourselves to be certainly dead to sin, and to be living for God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
12. Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body, such that you would obey its desires.
13. Nor should you offer the parts of your body as instruments of iniquity for sin. Instead, offer yourselves to God, as if you were living after death, and offer the parts of your body as instruments of justice for God.
14. For sin should not have dominion over you. For you are not under the law, but under grace.
15. What is next? Should we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? Let it not be so!
16. Do you not know to whom you are offering yourselves as servants under obedience? You are the servants of whomever you obey: whether of sin, unto death, or of obedience, unto justice.
17. But thanks be to God that, though you used to be the servants of sin, now you have been obedient from the heart to the very form of the doctrine into which you have been received.
18. And having been freed from sin, we have become servants of justice.
19. I am speaking in human terms because of the infirmity of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of your body to serve impurity and iniquity, for the sake of iniquity, so also have you now yielded the parts of your body to serve justice, for the sake of sanctification.
20. For though you were once the servants of sin, you have become the children of justice.
21. But what fruit did you hold at that time, in those things about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
22. Yet truly, having been freed now from sin, and having been made servants of God, you hold your fruit in sanctification, and truly its end is eternal life.
23. For the wages of sin is death. But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

## Romans 6 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Quid ergo dicemus? permanebimus in peccato ut gratia abundet?
2. Absit. Qui enim mortui sumus peccato, quomodo adhuc vivemus in illo?
3. an ignoratis quia quicumque baptizati sumus in Christo Jesu, in morte ipsius baptizati sumus?
4. Consepulti enim sumus cum illo per baptismum in mortem: ut quomodo Christus surrexit a mortuis per gloriam Patris, ita et nos in novitate vitæ ambulemus.
5. Si enim complantati facti sumus similitudini mortis ejus: simul et resurrectionis erimus.
6. Hoc scientes, quia vetus homo noster simul crucifixus est, ut destruatur corpus peccati, et ultra non serviamus peccato.
7. Qui enim mortuus est, justificatus est a peccato.
8. Si autem mortui sumus cum Christo, credimus quia simul etiam vivemus cum Christo,
9. scientes quod Christus resurgens ex mortuis jam non moritur: mors illi ultra non dominabitur.
10. Quod enim mortuus est peccato, mortuus est semel: quod autem vivit, vivit Deo.
11. Ita et vos existimate vos mortuos quidem esse peccato, viventes autem Deo, in Christo Jesu Domino nostro.
12. Non ergo regnet peccatum in vestro mortali corpore ut obediatis concupiscentiis ejus.
13. Sed neque exhibeatis membra vestra arma iniquitatis peccato: sed exhibete vos Deo, tamquam ex mortuis viventes: et membra vestra arma justitiæ Deo.
14. Peccatum enim vobis non dominabitur: non enim sub lege estis, sed sub gratia.
15. Quid ergo? peccabimus, quoniam non sumus sub lege, sed sub gratia? Absit.
16. Nescitis quoniam cui exhibetis vos servos ad obediendum, servi estis ejus, cui obeditis, sive peccati ad mortem, sive obeditionis ad justitiam?
17. Gratias autem Deo quod fuistis servi peccati, obedistis autem ex corde in eam formam doctrinæ, in quam traditi estis.
18. Liberati autem a peccato, servi facti estis justitiæ.
19. Humanum dico, propter infirmitatem carnis vestræ: sicut enim exhibuistis membra vestra servire immunditiæ, et iniquitati ad iniquitatem, ita nunc exhibete membra vestra servire justitiæ in sanctificationem.
20. Cum enim servi essetis peccati, liberi fuistis justitiæ.
21. Quem ergo fructum habuistis tunc in illis, in quibus nunc erubescitis? nam finis illorum mors est.
22. Nunc vero liberati a peccato, servi autem facti Deo, habetis fructum vestrum in sanctificationem, finem vero vitam æternam.
23. Stipendia enim peccati, mors. Gratia autem Dei, vita æterna, in Christo Jesu Domino nostro.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 1227: Baptism in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1006: Dying in Christ Jesus ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1987: Justification ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 537: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 628: Jesus Christ Was Buried ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 730: The Spirit of Christ in the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 977: One Baptism for the Forgiveness of Sins ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1697: Life in Christ ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 648: On the Third Day He Rose From the Dead ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 790: The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2565: Prayer in the Christian Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1987: Justification ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1085: Christ's Work in the Liturgy ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1694: Life in Christ ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2819: "Thy Kingdom Come" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 197: I. the Creeds ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1237: How is the Sacrament of Baptism Celebrated? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1733: Freedom and Responsibility ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1995: Justification ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1006: Dying in Christ Jesus ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1008: Dying in Christ Jesus ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2627: Blessing and Adoration ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 6: Our corrupt state, subject to sin and concupiscence, coming to us from Adam, is called our old man, as our state, reformed in and by Christ, is called the new man.
- Verse 6: The vices and sins, which then ruled in us, are named the body of sin.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sat, Mar 27, 2027: Holy Saturday — the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter — Epistle, Romans 6:3-11
- Wed, Oct 20, 2027 (computed): Wednesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Romans 6:12-18
- Thu, Oct 21, 2027 (computed): Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Romans 6:19-23
- Sat, Apr 15, 2028 (computed): Holy Saturday — the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter — Epistle, Romans 6:3-11

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).