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Romans 6:3
Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?
Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?
Verse Romans 6:3. _KNOW YE NOT_, c.] Every man who believes the Christian religion, and receives baptism as the proof that he believes it, and has taken up the profession of it, is bound thereby to a...
KNOW YE NOT - This is a further appeal to the Christian profession, and the principles involved in it, in answer to the objection. The simple argument in this verse and the two following is, that by o...
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)...
KNOW YE NOT. Literally Are ye ignorant. Greek. _agnoeo._ See Romans 2:4. BAPTIZED. App-115. INTO. App-104. JESUS CHRIST. Christ Jesus. App-98. Compare Matthew 20:20....
_so many of us_, &c. Not implying that some were, and some were not. This is plain from the Gr. _All_Christian believers are contemplated; for each his baptism was all this, if a true baptism. This an...
Ἤ�, Romans 7:1 only; cf. οὐ θέλω ὑ. ἀγνοεῖν Romans 1:13; Romans 11:25; 1 Corinthians 10:1;...
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...
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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...
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? KNOW YE NOT, THAT SO MANY OF US AS WERE BAPTIZED INTO JESUS CHRIST - `Christ Jesus' it should be; fo...
__ 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....
Cp. Galatians 3:27. SO MANY OF US AS] RV 'all we who.'...
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...
KNOW YE NOT. — It should be as in the Greek, _Or know ye not._ Do you not admit this principle; or am I to suppose that you are ignorant? &c. WERE BAPTIZED INTO JESUS CHRIST — _i.e.,_ “into communion...
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...
But this death to sin, on which the whole argument turns, raises a question. It is introduced here quite abruptly; there has been no mention of it hitherto. _When_, it may be asked, did this all-impor...
“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...
(3) Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into (c) Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? (3) There are three parts of this sanctification: that is, the death of the old man or sin, hi...
We...are baptized in his death. Greek, unto his death. The apostle here alludes to the manner of administering the sacrament of baptism, which was then done by immersion or by plunging the person bapt...
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...
“ _Or know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?_ ” The ἤ, _or, or indeed_, ought, according to the usual meaning of the phrase: _or know ye not_,...
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...
_UNION WITH CHRIST_ ‘Baptized into Jesus Christ.’ Romans 6:3 Try and think what baptism is, how it is a real part of living theology. I do want you to have firmly fixed in your mind the main idea a...
3._Know ye not_, _etc. _What he intimated in the last verse — that Christ destroys sin in his people, he proves here by mentioning the effect of baptism, by which we are initiated into his faith; for...
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 SO MANY OF US AS, etc.] You must know this, you cannot be ignorant of it, that whoever WERE BAPTIZED INTO JESUS CHRIST, WERE BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH: and therefore must be dead to si...
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Ver. 3. _Baptized into his death_] _Hoc est baptizari pro mortuis, _ saith Beza, to be buried with Chr...
_Know ye not_ Can any of you be ignorant of this great and obvious truth, _that so many of us as were baptized into Christ_ That is, into the profession of the Christian faith; or implanted into and m...
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 wi...
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,...
WERE: Or, are...
OR ARE YE IGNORANT THAT ALL WE WHO WERE BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST JESUS WERE BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH? 'Or are ye ignorant' -'Now this is important--Paul is here stressing what some saints might not have...
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...
KNOW YE NOT? q.d. This is a truth which you ought not to be ignorant of and which confirms what I say. BAPTIZED INTO JESUS CHRIST: to be baptized into Christ, is either to be baptized in the name of C...
Are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III But that the apostle did know Him as one, both who was born and who suffered, namely Christ Jesus, he again says in the same Epistle: "Know ye not, that so many of...
Romans 6:3 Or G2228 know G50 (G5719) that G3754 us G3745 baptized G907 (G5681) into G1519 Christ...
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...
‘Or are you ignorant that all we who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death?' For the truth is that when as believing Christians we are baptised, we are baptised into Christ's de...
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 6:3. OR ARE YE IGNORANT. ‘If this is doubtful, then I appeal directly to your experimental knowledge.' ALL WE WHO, referring to the same persons as in Romans 6:2; all without exception. WERE...
WERE BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST (εβαπτισθημεν εις Χριστον). First aorist passive indicative of βαπτιζω. Better, "were baptized unto Christ or in Christ." The translation "into" makes Paul say that the uni...
SO MANY All we who were baptized....
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...
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...
FOR SURELY YOU KNOW THIS. He reminds them that they already know the meaning of baptism. WHEN WE WERE BAPTIZED INTO UNION. _John Wesley_ wrote: "In baptism we, through faith, are ingrafted into Christ...
_Know ye not that as many as were baptised into Jesus Christ were baptised into His death?_ CHRISTIAN BAPTISM I. What it is-- 1. A sign of grace. 2. A mystery of faith. 3. A seal of the covenant....
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 6:3 Christians died to sin when they were BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST. Paul is not arguing that baptism destroys the power of sin. Baptism is an outward, physical symbol of the inward,...
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 Corinthians 12:13; 1 Corinthians 15:29; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 1 Corinthians 5:6;...
Know ye not [α γ ν ο ε ι τ ε]. The expression is stronger : are ye ignorant. So Rev. The indicative mood presupposes an acquaintance with the moral nature of baptism, and a consequent absurdity in the...
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...
As many as have been baptized into Jesus Christ have been baptized into his death — In baptism we, through faith, are ingrafted into Christ; and we draw new spiritual life from this new root, through...
TO BE BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST, is by baptism to take the name of Christ upon us, to be incorporated, ingrafted, and implanted into the church of Christ, being made visible members of his mystical body by...