Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III
Ipse enim egregius Apostolus in verbis, quae praedictae dictioni subjungit, intentati criminis afferet solutionem: "Quid ergo? peccabimus, quia non sumus sub lege, sed sub gratia? Absit."[99]
Verse Romans 6:15. _SHALL WE SIN BECAUSE WE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW_] Shall we abuse our high and holy calling because we are not under that _law_ which makes no provision for _pardon_, but are under th...
WHAT THEN? SHALL WE SIN ... - The apostle proceeds to notice an objection which might be suggested. “If Christians are not under the law, which forbids all sin, but are under grace, which pardons sin,...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. Dead with Christ to Sin. (Romans 6:1 .)_ 2. Risen with Christ and Alive to God. (Romans 6:8 .) 3. Sin shall Not Have Dominion. (Romans 6:12 .) 4. Servants to Righteousness. ...
THE CHRISTIAN'S SEVERANCE FROM SIN. Romans 6:12 f. The conflict turns on the possession of _the body:_ sin and God both claim the use of your limbs; sin must not reign in your mortal body, though that...
DYING TO LIVE (Romans 6:1-11)...
What then? Are we to go on sinning because we are not under the law but under grace? God forbid! Are you not aware that if you yield yourselves to anyone as slaves, in order to obey them, you are the...
SHALL WE. are we to. SIN. Compare Romans 2:12 App-128....
The same subject. Illustration from slavery 15. _What then?_ This takes up the question of Romans 6:1, and introduces the explicit answer, for which the passages between have fully prepared us. The fo...
15–23. These verses, starting from the contrast just stated, describe the same conditions as in Romans 6:1-14 but from a slightly different point of view; there the two states of man have been describ...
Romans 6:1 to Romans 7:6. The ethical bearing and standard of the new life in Christ. (1) Are we to conclude that the state of sin is to continue, as a provocative, so to speak, of the graciousness of...
ΆΜΑΡΤΉΣΩΜΕΝ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΆΜΑΡΤΆΝΩ (G264) грешить. Совещательный _conj._, "Будем ли мы грешить?". Риторический вопрос, на который ожидается ответ: "Нет" ΓΈΝΟΙΤΟ _aor._ opt. _med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊ...
_TEXT_ Romans 6:15-23. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid. Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his s...
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. WHAT THEN? SHALL WE SIN, [ hamarteesomen (G264)]. But this future tense, as in Romans 6:1, has hardly a vesti...
__ Conciliation-Individual 12 A realization of our death to sin and life in Christ will give us power to cope with sin, always remembering that sin cannot bring us into disfavor because of the super...
6:15 sin (k-5) Or 'are we to sin?' the subjunctive aorist....
THE NEW RIGHTEOUSNESS IN UNION WITH CHRIST St. Paul's begins by repeating an objection he must often have heard from Jewish adversaries (cp: Romans 3:8), and suggested here by Romans 5:20 -'Does not t...
THE LAW] RV 'law': cp. Galatians 5:13....
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 6 FREEDOM FROM *SIN 6:1-23 DEAD TO *SIN, ALIVE IN *CHRIST 6:1-14 V1 God’s *grace increased because *sin increased. Bu...
The Apostle returns to a difficulty very similar to that which presented itself at the beginning of the chapter. The answer is couched under a slightly different metaphor. It is no longer death to the...
(15-23) _Free_ forgiveness! What does that mean? Freedom to sin? Far from it. That were to return into the old slavery. To yield to sin is to be the servant or slave of sin with its consequence — deat...
CHAPTER 15 JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HUMAN LIFE Romans 6:14 - Romans 7:1 AT the point we have now reached, the Apostle's thought pauses for a moment, to resume. He has brought u...
ἁμαρτήσωμεν; deliberative: are we to sin because our life is not ruled by statutes, but inspired by the sense of what we owe to that free pardoning mercy of God? Are we to sin because God justifies th...
“SIN SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION” Romans 6:12 Standing with Christ on the resurrection side of death, we must present our whole being to God for His use. We have left forever behind, nailed to the Cross,...
The apostle declared, "We died to sin," that is, we were set free from our relationship to sin. On that basis he asked his question, How can we live in that to which we have died? Taking baptism as an...
(8) What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. (8) To be under the law and under sin signifies the same thing, with respect to whose who are not sanctifie...
FOURTEENTH PASSAGE (6:15-23). THE POWER OF THE NEW PRINCIPLE OF SANCTIFICATION TO DELIVER FROM SIN. The new principle had just been laid down. The apostle had found it in the object of justifying fait...
“ _What then? should we sin_, _because we are not under the law, but under grace? Let it not be so!_ ” The question of Romans 6:15 is not a repetition of that in Romans 6:1. The discussion has advance...
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 G...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
15._What then? _As the wisdom of the flesh is ever clamorous against the mysteries of God, it was necessary for the Apostle to subjoin what might anticipate an objection: for since the law is the rule...
The character of this new life, into which the resurrection of Christ has brought us, is presented here in a striking way. Christ had perfectly glorified God in dying; also even in dying was He the So...
WHAT THEN? SHALL WE SIN,.... Does it follow from hence, that therefore we may sin, and go on and continue in it, BECAUSE WE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE? here the apostle meets with an obje...
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Ver. 15. _Shall we sin, because, &c._] Some Antinomian libertines would persuade men that God is never displeas...
_What then_ are we to infer? _Shall we sin_ Go on in our transgressions; _because we are not under the law_ Under the law of Moses, or any mere legal dispensation which forbids sin, but gives no stren...
SHALL WE SIN; if they should thus abuse the doctrine of salvation by grace, and take occasion from it to live in known sin, it would show that they loved sin, that they were its slaves; and continuing...
THE SERVICE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. The impelling power of this service:...
WHAT THEN? SHALL WE SIN BECAUSE WE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE? GOD FORBID!...
A CHANGE OF MASTERS With the headship of Christ established for the believer - a headship which has to do with new life in contrast to the old life inherited from Adam, and grace reigning where sin ha...
ROMANS CHAPTER 6 1. Subject of this chapter a. NOT: baptism - mentioned 3 times b. IS: death - spiritual death c. Some form of the word "dead" is found 18 times d. Verses - 2, 3, 4 (2 times), 5,...
__ Romans 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid. 'What then' -another turn in the argument about the gospel that Paul preaches. 'SHALL WE SIN, BECA...
11-15 The strongest motives against sin, and to enforce holiness, are here stated. Being made free from the reign of sin, alive unto God, and having the prospect of eternal life, it becomes believers...
WHAT THEN? doth it follow from hence that we are lawless, and may live as we list? GOD FORBID: q.d. No, by no means, the premises afford no such conclusion; though we are not under the curse and rigou...
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid. [In the last section Paul showed that sin was not justified, even though it causes God's goodness to abound. In this...
Romans 6:15 What G5101 then G3767 sin G264 (G5692) because G3754 are G2070 (G5748) not G3756 under...
CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN FREED FROM THE TYRANNY OF SIN BY DYING WITH CHRIST AND RISING WITH HIM AND ARE THEREFORE TO TRIUMPHANTLY SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY OF BEING SO FREED FROM SIN (6:1-23). Having ended th...
‘What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!' Once again Paul poses a question. He had once been under the Law and he had discovered that it was a parlous si...
WE ARE THEREFORE NO LONGER TO BE SERVANTS OF SIN, BUT SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND OF GOD, NO LONGER EARNING DEATH AS OUR WAGES, BUT RECEIVING THE FREE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD ...
2. _Christians are Dead to Sin_, _and Dedicated to God._ The exhortation of Romans 6:11 is expanded in Romans 6:12-14; the negative part (‘dead unto sin') in Romans 6:12-13 a; the positive part (‘aliv...
3. MORAL RESULTS OF JUSTIFICATION; THOSE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH LIVE A NEW LIFE IN THE SPIRIT. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation; through it the will is affected, and thus is accomplished _mo...
Romans 6:15. WHAT THEN? SHALL WE SIN, etc. This objection has been raised ever since. It is not precisely the same as that suggested in Romans 6:1: there the objection was that free pardon would encou...
WHAT THEN? (τ ουν?). Another turn in the argument about the excess of grace.SHALL WE SIN? (αμαρτεσωμεν?). First aorist active deliberative subjunctive of αμαρτανω. "Shall we commit sin" (occasion...
WHAT THEN The old relation to the law and sin, and the new relation to Christ and life are illustrated by the effect of death upon servitude (Romans 6:16) and marriage (Romans 7:1). (1) The old serv...
Romans 6:15 Bondmen of Righteousness. I. St. Paul's manner of thinking is frequently hard to follow. One peculiarity which contributes to make it a difficult exercise to track his reasoning is this:...
Romans 6:1 _What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?_ The fifth chapter ends up in this way, that «where sin abounded, etc… Jesus Christ our Lord.» Then he goes on t...
Romans 6:1. _What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?_ If the sinfulness of man has really given an opportunity for the display of divine mercy, then the devil's logic...
Romans 6:1. _What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?_ This seems to be a very plausible temptation, it is one which frequently came in the apostle's way, and therefor...
Paul finishes the last chapter by saying, «That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.» «What shall we say, then?»...
CONTENTS: Deliverance from the power of indwelling sin by counting the old life dead, and yielding to the new life. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: It is an abuse of the grace of God in Ch...
Romans 6:1. _Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?_ The apostle having said, that as sin had abounded by the entrance of the law, so grace had much more abounded by the proclamation of the...
WHAT, THEN? SHALL WE SIN? Since we are not ruled by commandments of law, but by the SENSE of what we owe God for his free gift of grace, are we then to make a habit of sin??? Since God set us free at...
_What then?_ Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? THE DOCTRINES OF GRACE DO NOT LEAD TO SIN 1. Grace is the soul of the gospel: without it the gospel is dead. Grace is t...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 6:1 The law does not and cannot conquer sin, but the grace given to followers of Christ triumphs over sin and death. ⇐...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 6:12.—Sin works bodily desires as the utterances of itself, obedience to which gives it its domain in the body (Wordsworth). Sin personified as a sort of rival sovereign or de...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 8:1 (7) _Moral results to true believers of the revelation to them of the righteousness of God. _The _righteousness of God_ having been announced as revealed in the gospel (Romans 1...
What shall we say then? (Romans 6:1) If where sin abounds, grace does much more abound, Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? (Romans 6:1) No. Let's let God reveal how much grace there i...
1 Corinthians 9:20; 1 Corinthians 9:21; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Ephesians 2:8;...
SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN? Romans 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Grace never gives a margin to sin. There are some who go so far as to use "salvation by Grace" as an excuse for laxity in their morals; they...
Here the apostle starts an objection, which some licentious person might be ready to make: "If we are not under the law which condemns sin, but under the covenant of grace which allows the pardon, and...