Romans 6:1,2
SANCTIFICATION AS A FRUIT OF JUSTIFICATION. Justification does not lead to indulgence of sin:... [ Continue Reading ]
SANCTIFICATION AS A FRUIT OF JUSTIFICATION. Justification does not lead to indulgence of sin:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN THAT GRACE MAY ABOUND?... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD FORBID! HOW SHALL WE, THAT ARE DEAD TO SIN, LIVE ANY LONGER THEREIN? The apostle has concluded his exposition of the doctrine of justification, bringing out, throughout the argument, that salvation is full and free. He now feels constrained to meet the most common, the most plausible, and yet th... [ Continue Reading ]
KNOW YE NOT THAT SO MANY OF US AS WERE BAPTIZED INTO JESUS CHRIST WERE BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH?... [ Continue Reading ]
The power of Baptism:... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF WE HAVE BEEN PLANTED TOGETHER IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS DEATH, WE SHALL BE ALSO IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS RESURRECTION;... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE THAT IS DEAD IS FREED FROM SIN.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW IF WE BE DEAD WITH CHRIST, WE BELIEVE THAT WE SHALL ALSO LIVE WITH HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
KNOWING THAT CHRIST BEING RAISED FROM THE DEAD DIETH NO MORE; DEATH HATH NO MORE DOMINION OVER HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IN THAT HE DIED HE DIED UNTO SIN ONCE; BUT IN THAT HE LIVETH HE LIVETH UNTO GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
LIKEWISE RECKON YE ALSO YOURSELVES TO BE DEAD INDEED UNTO SIN, BUT ALIVE UNTO GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD. The fact that Christians are delivered from the power and bondage of sin is brought out by Paul by a reference to Baptism and its power. Or do you not know, are you ignorant of the fact?... [ Continue Reading ]
The reign of sin definitely closed:... [ Continue Reading ]
LET NOT SIN, THEREFORE, REIGN IN YOUR MORTAL BODY THAT YE SHOULD OBEY IT IN THE LUSTS THEREOF.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR SIN SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION OVER YOU; FOR YE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE. This is the practical inference and deduction from the preceding discussion. Since the believers have entered into the most intimate union with Christ, with the fruits of His death and with the blessings of His... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT THEN? SHALL WE SIN BECAUSE WE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE? GOD FORBID!... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SERVICE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. The impelling power of this service:... [ Continue Reading ]
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?... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT GOD BE THANKED THAT YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF SIN, BUT YE HAVE OBEYED FROM THE HEART THAT FORM OF DOCTRINE WHICH WAS DELIVERED YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEING, THEN, MADE FREE FROM SIN, YE BECAME THE SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. The apostle finds it necessary once more to obviate a possible misunderstanding, a false conclusion which might be made from the statement that we are under grace. What then? What is the situation? How do matters stand? Shall... [ Continue Reading ]
I SPEAK AFTER THE MANNER OF MEN BECAUSE OF THE INFIRMITY OF YOUR FLESH; FOR AS YE HAVE YIELDED YOUR MEMBERS SERVANTS TO UNCLEANNESS AND TO INIQUITY UNTO INIQUITY, EVEN SO NOW YIELD YOUR MEMBERS SERVANTS TO RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO HOLINESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
Servants of righteousness unto everlasting life:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHEN YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF SIN, YE WERE FREE FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT FRUIT HAD YE THEN IN THOSE THINGS WHEREOF YE ARE NOW ASHAMED? FOR THE END OF THOSE THINGS IS DEATH.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT NOW BEING MADE FREE FROM SIN, AND BECOME SERVANTS TO GOD, YE HAVE YOUR FRUIT UNTO HOLINESS, AND THE END EVERLASTING LIFE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH; BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD. Paul had used a very strong expression: "slavery of righteousness," to illustrate his meaning, a comparison taken from the common relations of men, to set forth the relation of the believers to God. An... [ Continue Reading ]