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Verse Romans 6:20. _YE WERE FREE FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS._] These two
servitudes are incompatible; if we cannot serve _God_ and _Mammon_,
surely we cannot serve _Christ_ and _Satan_. We must be either
_sin...
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YE WERE FREE FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS - That is, in your former state, you
were not at all under the influence of righteousness. You were
entirely devoted to sin; a strong expression of total depravity. It...
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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. ...
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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...
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DYING TO LIVE (Romans 6:1-11)...
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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...
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FROM. with regard to....
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_For when_, &c. This verse enforces the exhortation just given, by
reminding the Christian that once he was emphatically _not_the
"bond-servant of righteousness."
_free from righteousness_ Lit. FREE U...
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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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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...
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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...
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ΓᾺΡ. Make this effort, for your former freedom or slavery brought
you such gain as now shames you....
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ΉΤΕ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть,
ΈΛΕΎΘΕΡΟΣ (G1658) свободный....
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_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...
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For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from
righteousness.
FOR WHEN YE WERE THE SERVANTS ('WERE SERVANTS') OF SIN, YE WERE FREE
FROM (RATHER, 'IN RESPECT OF') RIGHTEOUSNESS - [ eleuther...
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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...
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FROM] RV 'in regard of.'...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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In every state in which man lives, there is a bondage and a liberty.
In the old state, it was bondage to sin, and liberty in relation to
righteousness. For τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ see Winer, 263....
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“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,...
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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...
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For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were (t) free from
righteousness.
(t) Righteousness had no rule over you....
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_You were free from justice; that is, says St. John Chrysostom, you
lived as no ways subject to justice, nor obedient to the law and
precepts of God: an unhappy freedom, a miserable liberty, worse tha...
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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...
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“ _For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free in respect of
righteousness. What fruit therefore had ye then? Things of which ye
are now ashamed; for certainly their end is death._ ”
We must se...
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Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of
righteousness. (19) I speak after the manner of men because of the
infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants
to unc...
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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...
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_SLAVES OF SIN_
‘When ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from
righteousness.’
Romans 6:20
St. Paul encourages the Christian to remember the bondage of sin, that
he may appreciate the blessin...
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20._For when ye were, etc. _He still repeats the difference, which he
had before mentioned, between the yoke of righteousness and that of
sin; for these two things, sin and righteousness, are so contr...
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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...
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FOR WHEN YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF SIN,.... This is an argument used, or
a reason given, why regenerate persons should be diligent in the
service of righteousness; because when they were employed in the...
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For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
Ver. 20. _Free from righteousness_] That is, utterly void of grace,
and did therefore sin lustily and horribly, earnestly opposi...
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_I speak after the manner of men_ He seems to mean that his reasoning
was taken from the customs of men, and was accommodated to their
apprehension; and that he used metaphors and allegories which wer...
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WHEN YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF SIN; were wholly devoted to it.
FREE FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS; not in any way under its control-a most
miserable freedom, as the apostle proceeds to show....
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Servants of righteousness unto everlasting life:...
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FOR WHEN YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF SIN, YE WERE FREE FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS....
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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...
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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,...
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FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS:
_ Gr._ to righteousness...
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Romans 6:20 For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard
of righteousness.
'free in regard of righteousness' -sin, not righteousness was your
master then....
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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...
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q.d. When you served sin, you knew that God and righteousness had no
whit of your service; why then should sin have any of your service
now, when ye have delivered up yourselves to righteousness, or
g...
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Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV
For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life,
through Jesus Christ our Lord."[14]...
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Romans 6:20 For G1063 when G3753 were G2258 (G5713) slaves G1401 sin
G266 were G2258 (G5713) free...
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‘For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard of
righteousness. What fruit had you then at that time in the things of
which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.'
Th...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Romans 6:20. FOR. This verse ‘restates the view given of their
former condition in respect to sin and righteousness, in preparation
for the final and most accurate statement of their present spiritual...
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FREE IN REGARD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
(ελευθερο τη δικαιοσυνη). Ye wore no collar of
righteousness, but freely did as ye pleased. They were "free." Note
dative case, personal relation, of δικαιοσυνη....
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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:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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WHEN YOU WERE SLAVES OF SIN. It is a reasonable thing to devote
yourself to God in righteousness, because when you were a slave of
sin, you gave no obedience to righteousness....
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_I speak after the manner of men._
APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION
I. Its method. “After the manner of men,” _i.e., _(Gr_._)
humanly--as men ordinarily speak, borrowing any illustrations from
common life. Spir...
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ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 6:20 Both physical and spiritual DEATH are
probably meant here.
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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.
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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John 8:34; Romans 6:16; Romans 6:17...
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Free from righteousness [ε λ ε υ θ ε ρ ο ι τ η δ ι κ α
ι ο σ υ ν η]. An ambiguous translation. Better, Rev., free in
regard of righteousness. Disengaged (Morison), practically independent
of its deman...
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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...
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When ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness —
In all reason, therefore, ye ought now to be free from
unrighteousness; to be as uniform and zealous in serving God as ye
were in se...
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That is, you were free DE FACTO, not DE JURE; when you were sin's
servants, you were void of righteousness, THAT had no part of your
service then; therefore sin should not have on joy of your service...