Ro 5:6
¶ For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Ro 5:7
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
Ro 5:8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Ro 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Ro 5:10
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Ro 5:11
And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Ro 5:12
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Ro 5:13
(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Ro 5:14
Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Ro 5:15
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
Ro 5:16
And not as through one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment came of one unto condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses unto justification.
Ro 5:17
For if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.
Ro 5:18
So then as through one trespass the judgment came unto all men to condemnation; even so through one act of righteousness the free gift came unto all men to justification of life.
Ro 5:19
For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one shall the many be made righteous.
Ro 5:20
And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:
Ro 5:21
that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Ro 6:1
¶ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Ro 6:2
God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?
Ro 6:3
Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Ro 6:4
We were buried therefore with him through baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Ro 6:5
For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;
Ro 6:6
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;
Ro 6:7
for he that hath died is justified from sin.
Ro 6:8
But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
Ro 6:9
knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more hath dominion over him.
Ro 6:10
For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Ro 6:11
Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.
Ro 6:12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:
Ro 6:13
neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Ro 6:14
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.
Ro 6:15
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.
Ro 6:16
Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Ro 6:17
But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;
Ro 6:18
and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.
Ro 6:19
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness unto sanctification.
Ro 6:20
For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.
Ro 6:21
What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
Ro 6:22
But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.
Ro 6:23
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
We are taught by God to live for Him. There are many verses in scripture that seem to lead one to think that salvation is a deal we make to live in faith. But those verse are more about how to identify the lost. There is nothing unclear about Romans 5-6. Jesus died for you because there was no escape from death any other way. By adding "us" to the salvation equation we are wrongly understanding the true condition of man. We are seeing a goodness in us that is simply not there.