Romans 6:15

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 form of the question here, as there, helps further to fix the reference of Romans 6:14 to justification. Sin was there said to have "no dominion" over the believer, in such a sense as to give (momentary) colourto such a question; therefore we now are shewn that the "dominion" there referred to was one of claim, not of influence.