---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Romans from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
  - romans
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 6
verse_count: 23
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Epistle of Paul to the Romans, chap. 6, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: OCR text of the 1867 scan, cross-checked against a second scan (holyscriptures00smit) and the page images; see docs/jst-romans-1867-decisions.md in the repository.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Romans 6

*Dead unto sin — Manner of baptism into Christ.*

**1** What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
**2** God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
**3** Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
**4** Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
**5** For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;
**6** Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
**7** For he that is dead to sin is freed from sin.
**8** Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
**9** Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
**10** For in that he died, he died unto sin once; but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
**11** Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
**12** Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
**13** Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
**14** For in so doing sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
**15** What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
**16** Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
**17** But God be thanked, that ye are not the servants of sin, for ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
**18** Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
**19** I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh; for as ye have in times past yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
**20** For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
**21** What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
**22** But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
**23** For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.