Mark Dunagan Commentaries
Romans 6:8
But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
ROMANS 6:8 de, {A} Instead of de,, which is supported by a very wide variety of witnesses, a few scribes preferred to use ga,r in order to connect the sentence to what goes before....
Verse Romans 6:8. _NOW IF WE BE DEAD WITH CHRIST_] According to what is stated in the preceding verses. See particularly on the 5th verse. Romans 6:5...
This passage is a confirmation and illustration of what the apostle had said before, Romans 6:5. The argument is, that as Christ was once dead but now lives to God, and will no more die, so we, being...
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. ...
UNION WITH THE DYING, RISEN CHRIST. Romans 6:1. The reference of Romans 5:20 to the law gives the legalist critic his opportunity to challenge Paul's whole doctrine on its practical outcome; in his vi...
DYING TO LIVE (Romans 6:1-11)...
What, then, shall we infer? Are we to persist in sin that grace may abound? God forbid! How shall we who have died to sin still live in it? Can you be unaware that all who have been baptized into Jesu...
WE BE DEAD WITH. we died together with (Greek. _sun._ App-104). BELIEVE. App-150. ALSO LIVE WITH. live also with. Greek. _suzao_. only here, 2 Corinthians 7:3; 2 Timothy 2:11....
_Now_, &c. This ver. and Romans 6:9-11 carry on, in a brief paragraph, the truth just stated, with special reference to the permanence and power of the Lord's resurrection-life, which is the pledge of...
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...
ΕἸ ΔῈ�. The death spoken of is not an absolute death, but relative only. The force of these verses is to bring out the positive effects of this death: it is not only death to the old life but entry up...
ΆΠΕΘΆΝΟΜΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΟΘΝΉΣΚΩ (G599) умирать (_см._ Romans 6:7). ΣΥΖΉΣΟΜΕΝ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΖΆΩ (G2198) жить вместе....
DISCOURSE: 1846 THE CHRISTIAN RISEN WITH CHRIST IN NEWNESS OF LIFE Romans 6:8. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: knowing that Christ being raised from the dea...
_TEXT_ Romans 6:1-11. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? Romans 6:2 God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein? Romans 6:3 Or are ye ign...
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: NOW IF WE BE DEAD ('IF WE DIED') WITH CHRIST, WE BELIEVE THAT WE SHALL ALSO LIVE WITH HIM - `the future (to use the words...
__ Conciliation-Individual 12 Death entered through sin at first, but now sin is transmitted through death. All sin because they are mortal. Christ brings life, which disposes of both death and sin....
BE DEAD] rather, 'died.'...
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...
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...
(6-11) Further description of this process. The Christian’s union with the crucified Christ binds him also to crucify or mortify (ascetically) the sinful desires of his body. Thus he is released from...
CHAPTER 14 JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS Romans 6:1 IN a certain sense, St. Paul has done now with the exposition of Justification. He has brought us on, from his denunciation of human sin, and his det...
The Apostle now resumes his main thought. συνζήσομεν : see note on ἀνάστασις Romans 6:5 : there is no conscious separation of ethical and transcendent life with Christ to Paul it is one life....
In the fifth chapter, Paul has concluded his exposition of the “righteousness of God” which is revealed in the Gospel. But the exposition leaves something to be desired something hinted at in Romans 3...
“DEAD UNTO SIN, BUT ALIVE UNTO GOD” Romans 6:1 It is not sufficient merely to _apprehend,_ however clearly, our standing in Christ; we must see to it that the doctrine issues in a _holy life._ Nothin...
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...
THIRTEENTH PASSAGE (6:1-14). SANCTIFICATION IN CHRIST DEAD AND RISEN. The apostle introduces this subject by an _objection_ which he makes to his own teaching, Romans 6:1; he gives it a _summary answe...
“ _Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:knowing that Christ after being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over Him. For the death t...
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? (2) God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? (3) Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptiz...
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...
_CHRIST AND HIS PEOPLE_ ‘Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him.’ Romans 6:8 The text exhibits a parallel between Christ’s literal death and resurrection and our...
8._But if we have died_, _etc. _He repeats this for no other end but that he might subjoin the explanation which follows, that Christ, having once risen, dies no more. And hereby he teaches us that ne...
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...
NOW IF WE BE DEAD WITH CHRIST,.... This does not imply any doubt about it, but is rather a taking it for granted: seeing we are dead with Christ by union with him, as our head and representative, and...
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Ver. 8. _We shall also live_] Then we are said properly to live, when our regeneration is perfected in heaven. To live here...
Rom. 6:8-9 Rom. 6:8, 9. "Now if we be dead with Christ," etc. These two verses, with the context, seem irrefragably to prove perseverance. Rom. 6:14...
_Now if we be dead with Christ_ Conformed to his death by dying to sin; _we believe that we shall also live with him_ We have reason sufficient to assure ourselves that we shall be conformed to him in...
DEAD WITH CHRIST; in the sense above explained-one with him in sympathy, desire, and effort as to the object of his death, the deliverance of his people from sin. WE BELIEVE THAT WE SHALL ALSO LIVE WI...
The power of Baptism:...
NOW IF WE BE DEAD WITH CHRIST, WE BELIEVE THAT WE SHALL ALSO LIVE WITH HIM,...
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,...
3-10 Baptism teaches the necessity of dying to sin, and being as it were buried from all ungodly and unholy pursuits, and of rising to walk with God in newness of life. Unholy professors may have had...
i.e. If we have fellowship with Christ in his death, we have reason to believe we shall have fellowship with him also in his resurrection and life: see ROMANS 6:5. Though everlasting be not excluded,...
But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;...
Romans 6:8 Now G1161 if G1487 died G599 (G5627) with G4862 Christ G5547 believe G4100 (G5719) that...
‘But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him,' For as we have already seen (Romans 6:3) Christ did not just die. He rose again from the dead. And therefore if we have died...
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...
REIGNING IN LIFE THROUGH CHRIST BY DYING WITH CHRIST, AND RISING WITH HIM (6:1-14). The question is asked in Romans 6:1, ‘What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?'. Thi...
Romans 6:8. VOW IF WE DIED WITH CHRIST. That this is the fact has been already stated, forming the underlying thought of Romans 6:3-6. WE BELIEVE, etc. The argument is plain, but the exact force of L...
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...
1. _Fellowship in the Death of Christ involves a New Life._ The objection with which the discussion opens, which has been repeatedly urged against the doctrine of justification by faith, shows conclus...
WITH CHRIST (συν Χριστω). As pictured by baptism, the crucifixion with Christ of verse Romans 6:6....
Romans 6:7 Christ's Death to Sin. When we ask what is meant by affirming of Christ, "The death that He died, He died unto sin," two questions emerge. (1) What connection had Jesus with sin before H...
Romans 6:8 I. As a tree cannot live and grow, cannot bear flowers and fruit, and expand itself towards heaven, unless it be first rooted and buried in the ground, so neither can the love of God in the...
Romans 6:8 I. The basis of the Apostle's sentiment here is the death of Christ. The death of Christ is the fact. Christ died for our sins. Calvary, its associations, its wonderful mystery and blessedn...
Romans 6:4 Christ's Resurrection an Image of our New Life. Our new life is like that of our risen Saviour I. In the manner of His resurrection. In order to appear to His disciples in that glorified...
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?»...
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?_ This seems to be a very plausible temptation, it is one which frequently came in the apostle's way, and therefor...
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...
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...
THAT WE WILL ALSO LIVE WITH HIM. Paul returns to his main line of reasoning. In baptism, the burial in the liquid grave climaxes in EMERGING from the water. This is both a symbolic and a real resurrec...
_Now if we be dead with Christ … we shall also live with Him._ DEATH AND LIFE WITH CHRIST To be dead with Christ is to hate and turn from sin; and to live with Him is to have our hearts and minds tur...
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 6:2.—Necessary connection between faith in Christ’s death and abhorrence of sin. Heathen writers speak of the wise and good as dead to sensualities and animal pleasures (Words...
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 Thessalonians 4:14; 2 Corinthians 13:4; 2 Corinthians 4:10; 2 Timothy 2:11;...
We be dead [α π ε θ α ν ο μ ε ν]. The aorist. Rev., correctly, we died. The death is viewed as an event, not as a state. We believe [π ι σ τ ε υ ο μ ε ν]. Dogmatic belief rather than trust, though th...
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...
Dead with Christ — Conformed to his death, by dying to sin....
Observe here, 1. supposition, or presupposed condition; the thing supposed, is the baptized persons being dead with Christ; IF WE BE DEAD WITH HIM, that is, by the exercise of daily mortification: If...