Dead to sin, &c. We are then dead to sin when we neither live in sin by serving it, nor sin lives in us by reigning; in this case, how can we still live in it by yielding to its desires? St. Augustine (chap. vi. de spiritu et litera) thus explains the passage: when grace has caused us to die to sin; if we live again in it, we must be exceedingly ungrateful to grace. (Estius)
Verse Romans 6:2. _GOD FORBID_] Μη γενοιτο, _Let it not be; by no means;_ _far from it; let not such a thing be mentioned_!-Any of these is the meaning of the Greek phrase, which is a strong expressi...
GOD FORBID - By no means. Greek, It may not be; Note, Romans 3:4. The expression is a strong denial of what is implied in the objection in Romans 6:1. HOW SHALL WE? ... - This contains a reason of the...
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...
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...
DYING TO LIVE (Romans 6:1-11)...
GOD FORBID. See Romans 3:4. ARE DEAD. died. THEREIN. in (App-104.) it....
_we, that are dead_, &c. More lit. and fully, WE, AS THOSE WHO DIED TO SIN. The reference is again to a single past act; the death of the Second Adam, _at which_His brethren too, regarded as "in Him,...
ΟἽΤΙΝΕΣ, the appeal is to the character of the Christian—‘seeing we are men who …’. ἈΠΕΘΆΝΟΜΕΝ definitely refers to baptism as explained Romans 6:3 f. ΤΗ͂Ι ἉΜΑΡΤΊΑΙ = our sin, the state of sin in whi...
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...
ΓΈΝΟΙΤΟ _aor._ opt. _med. (dep.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) быть, случаться (_см._ Romans 3:4). Opt. в утверждении, отвергающем ложный вывод. ΆΠΕΘΆΝΟΜΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΟΘΝΉΣΚΩ (G599) умирать. Это сме...
DISCOURSE: 1845 THE GOSPEL SECURES THE PRACTICE OF HOLINESS Romans 6:1. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live an...
HOW SHALL WE, THAT ARE DEAD, &C.— The objection which carnal minds are naturally apt to make against justification by God's free grace, through the infinite merit of Christ, is not to be answered by a...
_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...
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? GOD FORBID, [ mee (G3361) genoito (G1096)] - 'That be far from us;' the instincts of the new creature revolting at the thou...
__ 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....
ARE DEAD] rather, 'died,' i.e. in baptism. Those addressed had been adult converts. Their baptism had been a definite act of attachment to Christ and of detachment from the sinful world. Although to c...
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...
VI. (1-5) These considerations might seem to lead to an Antinomian conclusion. If the increase of sin has only led to a larger measure of forgiveness it might be thought well to continue in sin, and s...
THAT ARE DEAD. — Rather, _that died._ It is well to bear in mind Dr. Lightfoot’s remarks on the importance of keeping the strict aorist sense as opposed to that of the perfect (_i.e.,_ the single past...
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...
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...
μὴ γένοιτο, _cf._ Romans 3:4. οἵτινες ἀπεθάνομεν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ : the relative is qualitative: “we, being as we are persons who died to sin”. For the dative, see Romans 6:10-11, and Winer, p. 263. To have...
“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...
God forbid. (2) How shall we, that are (b) dead to sin, live any longer therein? (2) The benefits of justification and sanctification are always inseparable joined together, and both of them proceed...
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...
FIRST SECTION (6:1-7:6). THE PRINCIPLE OF SANCTIFICATION CONTAINED IN JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. This entire section is intended to lay the foundations of Christian sanctification. It includes three por...
“ _Let it not be so! We who are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?_ ” Just as a dead man does not revive and resume his former occupations, as little can the believer return to his ol...
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...
2._By no means. _To some the Apostle seems to have only intended indignantly to reprove a madness so outrageous; but it appears from other places that he commonly used an answer of this kind, even whi...
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...
GOD FORBID,.... By which he expresses his abhorrence of such a practice, and that this was a consequence which did not follow from the premises, and was far enough from his thoughts, and which he had...
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Ver. 2. _Live any longer therein_] Fall into it we may and shall; but it is not the falling into the water that drowns, but ly...
_What shall we say then_ What shall we think of this doctrine? namely, taught in the latter part of the preceding chapter, that where sin abounded grace did much more abound? Does it not follow from t...
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. The...
GOD FORBID! HOW SHALL WE, THAT ARE DEAD TO SIN, LIVE ANY LONGER THEREIN? The apostle has concluded his exposition of the doctrine of justification, bringing out, throughout the argument, that salvatio...
SANCTIFICATION AS A FRUIT OF JUSTIFICATION. Justification does not lead to indulgence of sin:...
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,...
GOD FORBID. WE WHO DIED TO SIN, HOW SHALL WE ANY LONGER LIVE THEREIN? 'God forbid' -Horrible thought (Robertson p. 361); 'Perish the thought', is the reaction of. mind that is mentally, morally, and...
1,2 The apostle is very full in pressing the necessity of holiness. He does not explain away the free grace of the gospel, but he shows that connexion between justification and holiness are inseparabl...
GOD FORBID; be it not, or far be it; he rejects any such inference or consequence, as unworthy of an answer: q.d. Away with all such doctrines, as, under pretence of advancing grace, do promote sin, o...
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...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Similiter etiam scribit Paulus in Epistola ad Romanos: "Quimortui sumus peccato, quomodo adhuc riveruns in ipso? Quoniam veins homo nosier simul est crucifixus...
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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...
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...
‘Certainly not. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live in it?' His reply is firm and strong. ‘Certainly not!' Literally, ‘let it not be'. Nothing was further from his thoughts. His teaching...
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...
Romans 6:2. LET IT NEVER BE. Comp. note in chap. Romans 3:4. Here, as there, an indignant denial: ‘let it not be that we continue in sin.' HOW SHALL WE WHO. ‘We who are of such a kind as.' DIED TO...
DIED TO SIN (απεθανομεν τη αμαρτια). Second aorist active of αποθνησκω and the dative case. When we surrendered to Christ and took him as Lord and Saviour. Qualitative relative (οιτινες, we the ver...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
Romans 6:1 Free Grace and Sin. In this passage, under cover of a reply to a plausible objection to the doctrine of justification, we really enter upon the discussion of the bearing of gospel faith o...
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...
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?_ 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?_ 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...
THAT WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO LIVE IN SIN? IN _chapter 5_ Paul showed us that man's sin provided a reason and a need for God's grace and mercy. Some said. _"If that is true, then the more_ we _sin, the m...
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 John 3:9; 1 Peter 1:14; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 4:1; 2 Corinthians
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 to sin — Freed both from the guilt and from the power of it....