Romans 6:1
WHAT SHALL WE SAY; in view of the foregoing truths, and especially the fact that where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. Shall we continue to live in sin, that grace may the more abound?... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT SHALL WE SAY; in view of the foregoing truths, and especially the fact that where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. Shall we continue to live in sin, that grace may the more abound?... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD FORBID; surely not; for that would be acting not only against the abounding, but against all operations of grace-against what is professed and is most earnestly desired by all true Christians. They have looked to Christ to be delivered not only from the punishment, but from the power of sin. For... [ Continue Reading ]
WERE BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH; were so united with him as to be the followers of him in his death by dying to sin as he did. See this idea more fully stated in verses Romans 6:10-11. True Christians will never make the fact that they are saved by grace and not by works, nor the fact that the greater... [ Continue Reading ]
WE ALSO SHOULD WALK IN NEWNESS OF LIFE; for our death with Christ to sin implies our resurrection with Christ to God, which is to us a new life of holiness. See on verses Romans 6:10-11.... [ Continue Reading ]
PLANTED TOGETHER; that is, as the original word implies, closely united, namely, with Christ. WE SHALL BE ALSO; closely united with Christ. Our dying with Christ to sin, implies our rising with Christ to God. Verses Romans 6:10-11.... [ Continue Reading ]
OUR OLD MAN; our natural love of sin, and inclination to commit it. IS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM; a repetition of the idea that we die with Christ to sin. The apostle uses the word crucified with reference to the manner of our Lord's death; perhaps also to intimate the lingering and painful nature of the... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE THAT IS DEAD; that is, as the context shows, he that has died to sin. Compare verse Romans 6:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 WITH HIM; be like him, through communications received from him, in living to God, even as the branch... [ Continue Reading ]
HE DIED UNTO SIN; in reference to sin, the design of his death being to put away sin. Hebrews 9:26. By making expiation for sin he prepared the way for its forgiveness, and thus its removal from the souls of all that believe in him. IN THAT HE LIVETH; liveth in his new resurrection-life. HE LIVETH... [ Continue Reading ]
LIKEWISE RECKON YE; be like Christ, in dying to sin and living to God. DEAD INDEED UNTO SIN; dead in reference to sin, in the sense of putting it away from you, and having no more to do with it. ALIVE UNTO GOD; living a new life of holiness devoted to God's glory, in imitation of Christ's resurrec... [ Continue Reading ]
LET NOT SIN THEREFORE REIGN; be not its slaves in being or doing wrong, but be the freemen and willing servants of Christ in being and doing right. IN YOUR MORTAL BODY; let not the mind be enslaved to, or polluted by the bodily propensities, appetites, or passions. Control and regulate them accordi... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER YIELD YE YOUR MEMBERS; let not any of your faculties or powers by employed in the service or used as the instruments of sin. YOURSELVES; body and soul with all your powers employ in the service, and to the glory of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
OVER YOU; Christians, who have believed in Christ, and are justified by faith. YE ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW; not under a legal dispensation, where perfect obedience to law, and freedom from all sin, are necessary to acceptance with God. The apostle had already shown that the law cannot deliver from eit... [ Continue Reading ]
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 this course, would reap its wages, eternal death. Romans 8:13; GALATIANS 6:7-8.... [ Continue Reading ]
Every person daily chooses the service of self and sin, or of Christ and holiness. One leads to life, the other to death. Both, God sets before men, and invites them to choose life by taking the way which leads to it, and promises that if they do they shall live. Deuteronomy 30:19; JOSHUA 24:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD BE THANKED; that they who were the servants of sin had forsaken it, and believed on the Lord Jesus Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
MADE FREE; from the slavery of sin. SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS; by believing and obeying Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER THE MANNER OF MEN; as much as to say, In calling you the servants of righteousness, I do not mean that you are not truly free, but I use an illustration drawn from a relation with which you are familiar. BECAUSE OF THE INFIRMITY OF YOUR FLESH; your dulness, on account of your remaining carnal... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF SIN; were wholly devoted to it. FREE FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS; not in any way under its control-a most miserable freedom, as the apostle proceeds to show.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT FRUIT HAD YE; in that shameful, wicked course. Did it do you any good? THE END OF THOSE THINGS; their tendency, and the result to which when continued they lead. IS DEATH; temporal, spiritual, eternal.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. EVERLASTING LIFE; holiness, and happiness, which shall be perfect and eternal.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WAGES OF SIN; its just desert. IS DEATH; endless sinning and suffering. ETERNAL LIFE; perfect, endless holiness and bliss. The future misery of the wicked is their just desert; and the future happiness of the righteous is the gracious gift of God, through the merits of Jesus Christ.... [ Continue Reading ]