Romans 6:14

οὐ κυριεύσει, a promise, not a command.

οὐ γὰρ κ.τ.λ. Cf. 1 Corinthians 15:56 : a verse which shows that this line of argument had been already developed by S. Paul in his oral teaching.

ὑπὸ νόμον … χάριν. The contrast is the keynote of this section: from the point of view of ethics, the Christian state is a state of grace, that is, a state in which man is the object of GOD’s free favour and recipient of a new power of moral action, not a state of law, that is, a state in which man receives a revelation of GOD’s will, but not the power to fulfil it. The statement of the contrast leads to the question of what freedom from law means, and that to a fuller account of what subjection to law means (c. 7).