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Romans 6:16
Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness?
Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness?
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Verse Romans 6:16. _TO WHOM YE YIELD YOURSELVES_] Can you suppose that you should continue to be the _servants_ of Christ if ye give way to _sin_? Is he not the _master_ who exacts the _service_, and...
KNOW YE NOT ... - The objection noticed in Romans 6:15, the apostle answers by a reference to the known laws of servitude or slavery, Romans 6:16, and by showing that Christians, who had been the slav...
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. ...
THE CHRISTIAN'S SEVERANCE FROM SIN. Romans 6:12 f. The conflict turns on the possession of _the body:_ sin and God both claim the use of your limbs; sin must not reign in your mortal body, though that...
DYING TO LIVE (Romans 6:1-11)...
What then? Are we to go on sinning because we are not under the law but under grace? God forbid! Are you not aware that if you yield yourselves to anyone as slaves, in order to obey them, you are the...
SERVANTS. App-190. TO OBEY. for (App-104.) obedience. HIS... OBEY. ye are servants to him whom ye obey. WHETHER. Greek. _etoi._ An emphatic word. Only here....
_Know ye not_ As a self-evident truth, that bond-service, once accepted, becomes binding. This general principle is at once applied to the special cases of Sin and Obedience regarded as personified Ma...
ΟΥ̓Κ ΟἼΔΑΤΕ ὍΤΙ, appeal to recognised principle. ὯΙ, neut.: the case is stated as generally as possible. ΕἸΣ ὙΠΑΚΟΉΝ = with a view to obeying, for obedience—the proper attitude of the δοῦλος. Ἤ ὙΠΑΚ...
16–23. These verses answer the question put in Romans 6:15. The complexity of the passage is due to the fact that S. Paul wishes to explain that the Christian life is subject to law, but that the subj...
15–23. These verses, starting from the contrast just stated, describe the same conditions as in Romans 6:1-14 but from a slightly different point of view; there the two states of man have been describ...
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...
ΠΑΡΙΣΤΆΝΕΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΑΡΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G3936) класть рядом (_см._ Romans 6:13). Используется как термин, описывающий жертвоприношение, либо как юридический термин (BAGD). ΉΤΟΙ (G2273) либо. Име...
OBEDIENCE— That which he calls here simply _obedience,_ in other places he calls _obedience of faith,_ and _obedience of Christ;_ meaning a reception of the Gospel of Christ. The Apostle explains the...
_TEXT_ Romans 6:15-23. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid. Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his s...
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? KNOW YE NOT - Does not everyone...
__ Conciliation-Individual 12 A realization of our death to sin and life in Christ will give us power to cope with sin, always remembering that sin cannot bring us into disfavor because of the super...
6:16 Know (d-1) In ver. 6 it is objective knowledge, _ ginosko_ . In vers. 9 and 16 it is conscious knowledge, _ oida_ . See Note to 1 Corinthians 8:1 ....
Cp. Matthew 6:24. UNTO] i.e. resulting in. OBEDIENCE] personified; the mark of the lives both of the Redeemer and of the redeemed: cp. Philippians 2:8; Hebrews 5:8.;...
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...
KNOW YE NOT. — An apparent tautology, but one which really teaches a deep ethical truth. Don’t you know that what you make yourselves that you become? The habit which you form ends by becoming your “s...
(15-23) _Free_ forgiveness! What does that mean? Freedom to sin? Far from it. That were to return into the old slavery. To yield to sin is to be the servant or slave of sin with its consequence — deat...
CHAPTER 15 JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HUMAN LIFE Romans 6:14 - Romans 7:1 AT the point we have now reached, the Apostle's thought pauses for a moment, to resume. He has brought u...
οὐκ οἴδατε : It is excluded by the elementary principle that no man can serve two masters (Matthew 6:24). The δοῦλους is the exclusive property of _one_, and he belongs to that one εἰς ὑπακοὴν, with o...
“SIN SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION” Romans 6:12 Standing with Christ on the resurrection side of death, we must present our whole being to God for His use. We have left forever behind, nailed to the Cross,...
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...
“ _Know ye not, that in respect of Him to whom ye devote yourselves as servants to obey, ye are henceforth His servants who owe Him obedience; whether it be sin unto death, or obedience unto righteous...
FOURTEENTH PASSAGE (6:15-23). THE POWER OF THE NEW PRINCIPLE OF SANCTIFICATION TO DELIVER FROM SIN. The new principle had just been laid down. The apostle had found it in the object of justifying fait...
_ VV._ 16-19 describe the new subjection (_to righteousness_) by which grace displaces the old subjection (_to sin_)....
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. (13) Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto G...
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...
16._By no means: know ye not? _This is not a bare denial as some think, as though he preferred to express his abhorrence of such a question rather than to disprove it: for a confutation immediately fo...
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...
KNOW YE NOT, THAT TO WHOM YE YIELD YOURSELVES,.... The apostle goes on with his answer to the above objection, by making use of an argument from the nature of servants and their obedience, a thing wel...
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? Ver. 16. _His servants ye are_] Sin...
_What then_ are we to infer? _Shall we sin_ Go on in our transgressions; _because we are not under the law_ Under the law of Moses, or any mere legal dispensation which forbids sin, but gives no stren...
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 w...
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,...
__ Romans 6:16 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? Paul's poin...
16-20 Every man is the servant of the master to whose commands he yields himself; whether it be the sinful dispositions of his heart, in actions which lead to death, or the new and spiritual obedienc...
He refutes the aforementioned cavil by a common axiom, that every one knows and apprehends. OF OBEDIENCE UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS; which will be rewarded with eternal life. But why doth he not say of obedie...
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 tha...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Quomodo etiam res est libera, intemperantia et turpis sermo? "Omnis enim, qui peccat, est servus," inquit Apostolus.[24] Lactantius Divine Institutes Book II...
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‘Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants you are whom you obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?' For the test of who...
WE ARE THEREFORE NO LONGER TO BE SERVANTS OF SIN, BUT SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND OF GOD, NO LONGER EARNING DEATH AS OUR WAGES, BUT RECEIVING THE FREE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD ...
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...
Romans 6:16. KNOW YE NOT ‘I take it for granted that ye know and believe' (Stuart). TO WHOM YE RENDER YOURSELVES, etc. This principle is obvious: To present yourselves as servants to any one implies...
2. _Christians are Dead to Sin_, _and Dedicated to God._ The exhortation of Romans 6:11 is expanded in Romans 6:12-14; the negative part (‘dead unto sin') in Romans 6:12-13 a; the positive part (‘aliv...
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...
HIS SERVANTS YE ARE WHOM YE OBEY (δουλο εστε ω υπακουετε). Bondservants, slaves of the one whom ye obey, whatever one's profession may be, traitors, spies sometimes they are called. As Paul used th...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
Romans 6:15 Bondmen of Righteousness. I. St. Paul's manner of thinking is frequently hard to follow. One peculiarity which contributes to make it a difficult exercise to track his reasoning is this:...
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...
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?_ 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 WHEN YOU SURRENDER YOURSELVES. If we make ourselves _slaves_ to sin, death is the wage we receive! But if through obedience we make ourselves _slaves_ to God, we will be put right with him and re...
_Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey._ THE SERVICE OF SIN AND THE SERVICE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS I. The criterion of both--obedience. A disobedient servant is a contradiction in t...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 6:16 Giving in to sin leads to becoming OBEDIENT SLAVES to sin. This eventually LEADS TO DEATH. This does not mean that genuine believers can lose their salvation. It means that...
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 6:12.—Sin works bodily desires as the utterances of itself, obedience to which gives it its domain in the body (Wordsworth). Sin personified as a sort of rival sovereign or de...
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...
2 Peter 2:19; John 8:34; Joshua 24:15; Matthew 6:24; Romans 6:12;...
Servants [δ ο υ λ ο υ ς]. Every man must choose between two ethical principles. Whichever one he chooses is master, and he is its bond - servant. Compare Matthew 6:24; Matthew 7:18. Sin unto death - o...
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...
Two things are here intimated by the apostle; 1. That all men really are, and ought to be reputed servants to that master whose works they do, and whose commands they obey: WHOM YE OBEY HIS SERVANTS...