Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II
And the apostle, succinctly describing the end, writes in the Epistle to the Romans: "But now, being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life."[260]
Verse Romans 6:22. _BUT NOW BEING MADE FREE FROM SIN_] As being _free_ _from righteousness_ is the finished character of a _sinner_, so being _made free_ from _sin_ is the finished character of a _gen...
BUT NOW - Under the Christian plan of justification. BEING MADE FREE FROM SIN - Being delivered from its dominion, and from bondage; in the same manner as before conversion they were free from righte...
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...
EVERLASTING. App-151....
_now_ i.e. AS THINGS ARE, by Divine mercy. _to God_ The real Master of the justified. The figures, "Obedience," "Righteousness," "Rule of Doctrine," &c., are now laid aside, that He to whom they refe...
ΔΟΥΛΩΘΈΝΤΕΣ ΔῈ ΤΩ͂Ι ΘΕΩ͂Ι. The fullest expression of the service into which they have been brought. ἜΧΕΤΕ. You bear your proper fruit; or perhaps imper.; cf. Romans 6:19. N. the present of continued...
16–23. These verses answer the question put in Romans 6:15. The complexity of the passage is due to the fact that S. Paul wishes to explain that the Christian life is subject to law, but that the subj...
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...
ΈΛΕΥΘΕΡΩΘΈΝΤΕΣ _aor. pass. part. от_ ΈΛΕΥΘΕΡΌΩ (G1659) быть свободным. Temp, или причинное _part. Aor_ ., указывающее на логически предшествующее действие, ΔΟΥΛΩΘΈΝΤΕΣ _aor. pass. part. от_ ΔΟΥΛΌΩ (G...
_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...
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. BUT NOW - as if to get away from such a subject were unspeakable relie...
__ 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...
6:22 holiness, (c-20) _ Hagiasmos_ . See Note i at ch. 1.4....
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...
HOLINESS] RV 'sanctification.' EVERLASTING LIFE] i.e. future bliss....
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...
YE HAVE YOUR FRUIT. — You are no longer without fruit. Your fruit is the new Christian life which leads on to sanctification and finally to eternal life....
(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...
“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...
_You were free from justice; that is, says St. John Chrysostom, you lived as no ways subject to justice, nor obedient to the law and precepts of God: an unhappy freedom, a miserable liberty, worse tha...
“ _But now, being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit holiness, and your end everlasting life._ ” For the abstract master designated above, namely righteousness, Paul her...
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...
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 yielded your members servants to unc...
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...
_THE GREAT CHANGE_ ‘But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. Romans 6:22 I. CONSIDER THE PRACTICAL LESSONS CONT...
22._Ye have your fruit unto holiness_, _etc. _As he had before mentioned a twofold end of sin, so he does now as to righteousness. Sin in this life brings the torments of an accusing conscience, and i...
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...
BUT NOW BEING MADE FREE FROM SIN, AND BECOME SERVANTS TO GOD,.... In what sense regenerate persons are free from sin, and are become the servants of God, has been observed already; the consequence of...
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. Ver. 22. _Become servants to God_] _Phrasis vulgatissima est, Deum colere...
_I speak after the manner of men_ He seems to mean that his reasoning was taken from the customs of men, and was accommodated to their apprehension; and that he used metaphors and allegories which wer...
FREE FROM SIN; its condemning and reigning power. SERVANTS TO GOD; devoted to him. FRUIT UNTO HOLINESS; its results are increasing holiness, and of course increasing usefulness and happiness. EVERL...
Servants of righteousness unto everlasting life:...
BUT NOW BEING MADE FREE FROM SIN, AND BECOME SERVANTS TO GOD, YE HAVE YOUR FRUIT UNTO HOLINESS, AND THE END EVERLASTING LIFE....
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 6:22 But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life. 'have your fruit' -'derive your benefit' (NASV) 'SANCTI...
21-23 The pleasure and profit of sin do not deserve to be called fruit. Sinners are but ploughing iniquity, sowing vanity, and reaping the same. Shame came into the world with sin, and is still the c...
q.d. But now, on the contrary, being set at liberty from the service of sin, and admitted to be the servants of God, you plainly perceive a difference: for: 1. In your lifetime you increase in grace...
But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life....
Romans 6:22 But G1161 now G3570 free G1659 (G5685) from G575 sin G266 and G1161 slaves G1402 ...
‘But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.' But now that they had been made free from sin and had become servants...
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 ...
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...
Romans 6:22. BUT NOW, as opposed to ‘then' (Romans 6:21), BEING MADE FREE; comp. Romans 6:18. SERVANTS TO GOD. ‘God Himself here takes the place of “righteousness,” for their relation is now one of p...
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...
YE HAVE YOUR FRUIT UNTO SANCTIFICATION (εχετε τον καρπον υμων εις αγιασμον). Freedom from sin and slavery to God bring permanent fruit that leads to sanctification.AND THE END ETERNAL LIFE (το δε...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _ HOLINESS Sanctification. (_ See Scofield) - (Revelation 22:11). _...
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?_ 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?_ The fifth chapter ends up in this way, that «where sin abounded, etc… Jesus Christ our Lord.» Then he goes on t...
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...
BUT NOW. Because you have died to sin and are no longer its slave. YOUR GAIN. The result of A life dedicated to God is eternal life!...
_But now being made free from sin._ THE FREEDOM AND DIGNITY OF THE CHRISTIAN I. We are “free from sin.” 1. We are free from-- (1) Its guilt and pollution. Sin is represented as an evil of enormous...
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 6:23.—Eternal life is not like wages due for service to God, as death is wages due for service to sin. Eternal life is a donative or free gift of God. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE...
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 Peter 2:16; 2 Corinthians 3:17; Colossians 1:10; Colossians 4:12;...
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...
As the former verse represented to us the manifold inconveniences of. wicked life, so this verse acquaints us with the manifest advantages of. holy and religious course of life; and this, first, as to...