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Romans 6:5
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection;
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection;
Verse Romans 6:5. _FOR IF WE HAVE BEEN PLANTED TOGETHER_] συμφυτοι γεγοναμεν. Dr. Taylor observes, that our translation does not completely express the apostle's meaning. Τα συμφυτα are such plants a...
FOR IF WE HAVE BEEN PLANTED TOGETHER - The word used here σύμφυτος sumphutos, does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament. It properly means sown or planted at the same time; what sprouts or spring...
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)...
IF. App-118. BEEN. become. PLANTED TOGETHER. i.e. with Him. Greek. _sumphutos._ Only here. Compare John 12:24; 1 Corinthians 15:36. IN. Dative case. LIKENESS. See Romans 1:
_if_ i.e. "_as;_" an assumed fact _planted together_ Better (with regard to the form of the Gr. word), VITALLY CONNECTED. Not _implanting_but _coalescence_is the idea. (The word occurs nowhere else i...
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...
ΓᾺΡ expresses what was implied in καὶ ἡμεῖς, we are risen as Christ rose: this argument is continued to Romans 6:11. ΣΎΜΦΥΤΟΙ, here only N.T. Cf. ἔμφυτος, James 1:21. = if we have been born (γεγόναμεν...
ΣΎΜΦΥΤΟΣ (G4854) выросший вместе с. Может иметься в виду процесс прививки (Barrett), ΓΕΓΌΝΑΜΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться. _Perf._ указывает на непреходящие состояние или услови...
IF WE HAVE BEEN PLANTED TOGETHER— _Planted_ does not completely express the Apostle's sentiment. The expression τα συμφυτα, means such plants as grow the one upon and in the other, deriving sap and no...
_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...
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: FOR IF WE HAVE BEEN PLANTED TOGETHER IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS DEATH (i:e., wit...
__ 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....
6:5 with (c-7) Lit. 'grown up with' and so thoroughly one. cf. Luke 8:7 . It is not 'planted together with.'...
BEEN PLANTED, etc.] RM 'become united with the likeness.. with the likeness,' as a slip is united with the tree to which it is grafted....
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...
IF WE HAVE BEEN PLANTED TOGETHER. — “If (so surely as) we have _grown into — become conjoined with.”_ The metaphor is taken from the parasitic growth of a plant, but applies to _natural_ growth, not _...
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...
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...
This verse proves the legitimacy of the reference to a new life in the preceding one: union with Christ at one point (His death) is union with Him altogether (and therefore in His resurrecton). εἰ γὰρ...
“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...
(4) For if we have been planted together in the (f) likeness of his death, we shall (g) be also [in the likeness] of [his] resurrection: (4) The death of sin and the life of righteousness, or our ingr...
“ _For if we have become one and the same plant [with Him] through the likeness of His death, we shall be also partakers of His resurrection;_ ” The apostle had used the rite of baptism to illustrate...
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...
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...
_THE CHRISTIAN WALK_ ‘Like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.’ Romans 6:4 The Apostles lived in the knowledge that Jes...
_RESURRECTION FRESHNESS_ ‘Even so we also should walk in newness of life.’ Romans 6:4 Christ being the Head, rising, He draws up the body, just as, if you could conceive it, a natural dead body pla...
_AIMS IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE_ ‘Newness of life.’ Romans 6:4 A new life springs from a new motive, goes by a new way on to a new end. From that singleness of aim and end, as soon as a man has it, th...
5._For if we have been ingrafted_, _etc. _He strengthens in plainer words the argument he has already stated; for the similitude which he mentions leaves now nothing doubtful, inasmuch as grafting des...
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...
FOR IF WE HAVE BEEN PLANTED TOGETHER,.... This is not to be understood of an implantation of Jews and Gentiles together in One body; nor of an implantation of believers together in a church state; but...
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also _in the likeness_ of _his_ resurrection: Ver. 5. _For if we have been planted_] Burying is a kind of planting. The...
_For_ Surely these two must go together; so that if we have been united to Christ by faith, (to which baptism engages us,) and have been made conformable to his death, by being dead to sin, we shall a...
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 Chris...
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,...
FOR IF WE HAVE BECOME UNITED WITH HIM IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS DEATH, WE SHALL BE ALSO IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS RESURRECTION; 'United' -to grow together (Robertson p. 362); an intimate and progressive u...
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...
He prosecutes what he had before propounded, and illustrates it by an apt similitude, which is taken from grafting or planting. He takes it for granted, that believers are PLANTED TOGETHER IN THE LIKE...
For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection [The apostle here meets the cavil of some objector who supposes that we might d...
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VII y man according to the good pleasure of His kindness, that He might inspire him with the knowledge of His will, and enlighten the eyes of his heart to consi...
Romans 6:5 For G1063 if G1487 been G1096 (G5754) together G4854 likeness G3667 His G846 death G2288 also...
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...
‘For if we have been conjoined with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also (in the likeness) of his resurrection,' In Romans 6:4 our entering into Christ's death resulted in the fact that...
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 6:5. FOR IF. A confirmatory explanation of Romans 6:4; ‘if' being almost equivalent to ‘since.' HAVE GROWN TOGETHER, or, ‘been united.' The E. V., ‘planted together,' is incorrect; the figure...
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...
FOR IF WE HAVE BECOME UNITED WITH HIM BY THE LIKENESS OF HIS DEATH (ε γαρ συμφυτο γεγοναμεν τω ομοιωματ του θανατου αυτου). Condition of the first class, assumed to be true. Συμφυτο is old verbal a...
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 6:4 Christ's Resurrection an Image of our New Life. Our new life is like that of our risen Saviour I. In the manner of His resurrection. In order to appear to His disciples in that glorified...
Romans 6:5 Assimilation through Faith. I. Among the elements of human character we have really no deeper or more powerful agent for working a great change than faith, if we understand it fairly. The...
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...
FOR IF WE BECAME ONE WITH HIM. _"Being raised to life"_ is understood as a spiritual raising from death. The next verses show this. _"You were at one time spiritually dead because of your sins" (see_...
_For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death._ PLANTED TOGETHER WITH CHRIST The idea is not of two or three plants all put into the same ground, though that would to a certain e...
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...
Ephesians 2:5; Ephesians 2:6; Isaiah 5:2; Jeremiah 2:21; John 12:24;...
We have been planted together [σ υ μ φ υ τ ο ι γ ε γ ο ν α μ ε ν]. Rev. gives more accurately the meaning of both words. Sumfutoi is not planted, which would be formed from futeuw to plant, while this...
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...
For — Surely these two must go together; so that if we are indeed made conformable to his death, we shall also know the power of his resurrection....
Observe here, 1. supposition, IF WE HAVE BEEN PLANTED TOGETHER IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS DEATH; namely, by dying unto sin: If as Christ died, we die, he. natural, we. spiritual death: he for sin, and we...