Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Romans 6:1,2
Sanctification as a Fruit of Justification.
Justification does not lead to indulgence of sin:
Sanctification as a Fruit of Justification.
Justification does not lead to indulgence of sin:
CHAPTER VI. _We must not abuse the boundless goodness of God by continuing_ _in sin, under the wicked persuasion that the more we sin the_ _more the grace of God will abound_, 1. _For, having been...
WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? - This is a mode of presenting an objection. The objection refers to what the apostle had said in Romans 5:20. What shall we say to such a sentiment as that where sin abounded...
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)...
WHAT, &C. See Romans 3:5. CONTINUE. Greek. _epimeno._ See Acts 10:48. SIN. App-128. THAT. in order that. Greek. _hina_. GRACE. App-184. ABOUND. See Romans 5:20....
Romans 6:1-14. Justification organically connected with sanctification: grace the supreme motive to obedience 1. _What shall we say then?_ Here begins the direct treatment of a great topic already sug...
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...
ΤΊ ΟΥ̓͂Ν ἘΡΟΥ͂ΜΕΝ; as always, introduces a question putting a case which might occur to the reader. ἘΠΙΜΈΝΩΜΕΝ. So far the emphasis has been chiefly upon the free grace of GOD as justifying; this mig...
ΈΡΟΎΜΕΝ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить. Здесь используется в риторическом вопросе, ΈΠΙΜΈΝΩΜΕΝ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΕΠΙΜΈΝΩ (G1961) находиться, оставаться, жить. _Praes._ указывает на гре...
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...
_ROMANS 6:1_.— The Apostle having now proved, by three distinct arguments, that both Gentiles and Jews can be pardoned, and made partakers of the privileges and blessings of the kingdom of God under t...
_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...
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? In the opening remarks on the foregoing chapter it was stated that the second great Head of the apostle's subject, the Fruit...
__ 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....
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...
SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN? — Again the Apostle is drawn into one of those subtle casuistical questions that had such a great attraction for him. But he soon returns to the root-ideas of his own system....
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...
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...
Τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν; What inference then shall we draw, _i.e._, from the relations of sin and grace expounded in Romans 5:20 f.? Are we to continue in sin (_cf._ Romans 11:22 f.) that grace may abound? Lig...
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...
What (1) shall we say then? Shall we continue in (a) sin, that grace may abound? (1) He passes now to another benefit of Christ, which is called sanctification or regeneration. (a) In that corruptio...
_Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? He puts and rejects the same objection as before. (Chap. iii. ver. 7.) And having set forth in the last chapter the grace and advantage by Christ's com...
“ _What shall we say then? Should we continue in sin, that grace may abound?_ ” The meaning of this question: _What shall we say then?_ can only be this: What consequence shall we draw from the preced...
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...
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...
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...
CONTENTS The Doctrine of Justification by Christ, shewn to be a Doctrine of Godliness. And so far is it, in its Nature and Consequences, from leading to Licentiousness, that it is here proved to be t...
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...
1._What then shall we say? _Throughout this chapter the Apostle proves, that they who imagine that gratuitous righteousness is given us by him, apart from newness of life, shamefully rend Christ asund...
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...
WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN?.... The apostle here obviates an objection he saw would be made against the doctrine he had advanced, concerning the aboundings of the grace of God in such persons and places,...
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? Ver. 1. _Shall we continue_] _Quasi dicat, _ that were most unreasonable, and to an ingenuous nature, impossible. To argue fro...
_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...
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?...
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,...
WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN, THAT GRACE MAY ABOUND? 'What shall we say then' -'Then what shall we conclude' (Gspd); 'A transition-expression and. debater's phrase.'(Vincent p. 6...
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...
ROMANS CHAPTER 6 ROMANS 6:1 Though justified by grace, we may not live in sin; since the very figure of baptism requireth us to die with Christ unto sin, that we may lead a new life of holiness unto G...
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?...
Tertullian On Modesty ; but in that He liveth, to God He liveth. Thus, too, repute ye yourselves dead indeed to sin, but living to God through Christ Jesus."[190]...
Romans 6:1 What G5101 say G2046 (G5692) then G3767 continue G1961 (G5692) sin G266 that G2443 grace...
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...
‘What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?' The question is put in Paul's terms but probably had in mind charges that had been made against his teachings, or arguments...
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...
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 6:1. WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? ‘Then,' in view of chap. Romans 5:20-21. Comp. the similar phrase in chap. Romans 4:1. SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN? The form of the question in the original indicates...
WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? (τ ουν ερουμεν?). "A debater's phrase" (Morison). Yes, and an echo of the rabbinical method of question and answer, but also an expression of exultant victory of grace versu...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _ GRACE Grace (imparted). (Romans 5:1); (Romans 5:14); ...
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?_ 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?_ If the sinfulness of man has really given an opportunity for the display of divine mercy, then the devil's logic...
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...
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?»...
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 Peter 2:16; 2 Peter 2:18; 2 Peter 2:19; Galatians 5:13; Jude 1:4;...
What shall we say then? "A transition - expression and a debater's phrase" (Morison). The use of this phrase points to Paul's training in the Rabbinical schools, where questions were propounded and 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...
The apostle here sets himself more fully to vindicate his doctrine from the consequence above suggested, Romans 3:7. He had then only in strong terms denied and renounced it: here he removes the very...
The apostle begins this chapter with an objection, which some licentious person might be ready to make against what he had delivered in the close of the foregoing chapter; namely, that where sin aboun...