Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?... [ Continue Reading ]
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?... [ Continue Reading ]
God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein? [Macknight says, truly, that the thought of this and the next chapter reverts to Romans 3:3; and is intended to refute the thought of that verse, as reintroduced by Romans 5:20-21; viz.: that justification by faith renders the law... [ Continue Reading ]
Are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?... [ Continue Reading ]
We were buried therefore with him through baptism into 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. [The apostle's argument rests on the nature of Christ's death, etc. Jesus died to take away our sins, to bear them for... [ Continue Reading ]
For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection [The apostle here meets the cavil of some objector who supposes that we might die to sin in baptism, and still be under no obligation to retrain from it after baptism. The answer... [ Continue Reading ]
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;... [ Continue Reading ]
for he that hath died is justified from sin.... [ Continue Reading ]
But if we died 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 no more hath dominion over him.... [ Continue Reading ]
For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.... [ Continue Reading ]
Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus. [At this point the apostle passes over from the symbolic union which is effected on our part by baptism, to the actual union effected on Christ's part by his real assumption of our humanity through his incarna... [ Continue Reading ]
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof :... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace. [Thus the apostle vindicates his teaching, and shows that it does not justify any indulgence in sin. The Christian is to live realizing that in the person of Christ he has already actually passed from death unto lif... [ Continue Reading ]
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 section he shows that freedom from the law does not justify freedom in sinning. As usual, he presen... [ Continue Reading ]
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? ["I take it for granted that ye know and believe" (Stuart) the principles, that no man can serve two masters (Matthew 6:24), an... [ Continue Reading ]
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;... [ Continue Reading ]
and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. [But thanks be to God that these principles are not me... [ Continue Reading ]
For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness. [Whole-hearted service to God is now no more than you, by your past conduct, recognized as reasonable. For when ye were servants of sin ye made no effort whatever to serve righteousness, or to have two masters. If ye rendered... [ Continue Reading ]
What fruit then had ye at that time in the 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 sanctification, and the end eternal life.... [ Continue Reading ]
For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. [If consistency demands that you serve God with your whole heart, so profit and advantage also urges you so to do; for what profit had you when you served sin? In this present you were reaping, in that... [ Continue Reading ]