McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries
Romans 6:6
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;
Verse Romans 6:6. _OUR OLD MAN IS CRUCIFIED WITH_ him] This seems to be a farther extension of the _same metaphor_. When a seed is planted in the earth, it appears as if the _whole body_ of it _peris...
KNOWING THIS - We all knowing this. All Christians are supposed to know this. This is a new illustration drawn from the fact that by his crucifixion our corrupt nature has been crucified also, or put...
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)...
KNOWING. App-132. OLD MAN. The old Adam nature. Here, 2 Chronicles 3:9; 2 Chronicles 3:9. MAN. App-123. CRUCIFIED WITH. See John 19:32. THE BODY OF SIN. the old nature whic
_knowing this_ Not precisely = "for we know this;" but more fully, "_as those who know this_." This _knowledge_is to be a working motive in the new life. _our old man_ Cp., for illustrative passages,...
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...
Τ. ΓΙΝ ὍΤΙ, almost = schooling ourselves to remember—the idea is one which grows with experience of the new life—contrast εἰδότες Romans 6:9, cf. Moulton, p. 113. The point of the sentence lies in the...
ΓΙΝΏΣΚΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать. _Praes._ указывает на одновременное действие. Причинное _part._, "потому что мы знаем" ΠΑΛΑΙΌΣ (G3820) старый. "Старый человек" может относит...
OUR OLD MAN— Our wicked and corrupt fleshly self, Galatians 5:24.Ephesians 4:22. Colossians 2:11. 1 Peter 4:1. The utter destruction of the
_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...
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. KNOWING THIS ... The apostle now grows more definite and viv...
__ 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....
6:6 knowing (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 . serve (e-25) i.e. serve as bondmen....
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...
IS CRUCIFIED] rather, 'was crucified,' i.e. potentially, when Christ was crucified; actually, in faith and baptism: cp. Matthew 18:8.; Galatians 2:20. BODY OF SIN] i.e. the body as the servant of sin:...
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...
OUR OLD MAN. — “Our old self” (Vaughan), as in Ephesians 4:22; Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 3:9. The old self, or that congeries of evil habits acquired in the state of heathenism, was, ideally if not a...
(6-11) Further description of this process. The Christian’s union with the crucified Christ binds him also to crucify or mortify (ascetically) the sinful desires of his body. Thus he is released from...
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...
All this can be asserted, knowing as we do that “our old man” = our old self, what we were before we became Christians was crucified with Him. Paul says συνεσταυρώθη simply because Christ died on the...
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...
“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...
Knowing this, that our (h) old man is crucified with (i) [him], that the (k) body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not (l) serve sin. (h) Our entire nature, as we are conceived an...
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...
“ _Understanding this, that our old man has been crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin._ ” Why introduce abruptly the notion of _subjecti...
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...
_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...
6._That our old man_, _etc. _The old man, as the Old Testament is so called with reference to the New; for he begins to be old, when he is by degrees destroyed by a commencing regeneration. But what h...
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...
KNOWING THIS, THAT OUR OLD MAN IS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM,.... By the old man is meant the corruption of nature; called a man, because natural to men; it lives and dwells in them; it has spread itself over...
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with _him_, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Ver. 6. _The body of sin_] For whole evil is in man, and whol...
_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...
OUR OLD MAN; our natural love of sin, and inclination to commit it. IS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM; a repetition of the idea that we die with Christ to sin. The apostle uses the word crucified with reference...
The power of Baptism:...
KNOWING THIS, THAT OUR OLD MAN IS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM, THAT THE BODY OF SIN MIGHT BE DESTROYED, THAT HENCEFORTH WE SHOULD NOT SERVE SIN....
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,...
KNOWING THIS, THAT OUR OLD MAN WAS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM, THAT THE BODY OF SIN MIGHT BE DONE AWAY, THAT SO WE SHOULD NO LONGER BE IN BONDAGE TO SIN; 'Knowing this' -'this we know' (Wey); 'Since we real...
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...
By the OLD MAN is meant, that corrupt and polluted nature which we derive from Adam, the first man: see EPHESIANS 4:22 COLOSSIANS 3:9,10. The old and new man are opposites; as then the new man is the...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV But to us the apostle says, "Now we know this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not se...
Romans 6:6 knowing G1097 (G5723) this G5124 that G3754 our G2257 old G3820 man G444 with G4957 ...
‘Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin,' He now reverts back to stress that we are no longer...
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...
Romans 6:6. KNOWING THIS, or, ‘since we know this.' ‘This' refers to what follows, the whole defining the last clause of Romans 6:5. THAT OUR OLD MAN. Our sinful nature is here personified (comp. Eph...
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...
OUR OLD MAN (ο παλαιος ημων ανθρωπος). Only in Paul (here, Colossians 3:9; Ephesians 4:22).WAS CRUCIFIED WITH HIM (συνεσταυρωθη). See on Galatians 2:19 for this boldly picturesque word. This took...
OLD SELF The expression occurs elsewhere, in (Ephesians 4:22); (Colossians 3:9), and always means the man of old, corrupt human nature, the inborn tendency to evil in all men. In (Romans 6:6), it is...
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...
AND WE KNOW THIS. In our baptism we were crucified with Christ. THE POWER OF THE SINFUL SELF. Sin has taken possession of our bodies. When we are _"crucified,"_ sin can no longer make us its slave. As...
_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 6:6 The power of sin has been broken in those who believe. Their OLD SELF (literally, “old man,” meaning who they were in Adam) WAS CRUCIFIED and put to death with Christ. Body o...
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...
2 Kings 5:17; Colossians 2:11; Colossians 2:12; Colossians 3:10;...
Old man [ο π α λ α ι ο ς α ν θ ρ ω π ο ς]., Only in Paul, and only three times; here, Ephesians 4:22; Colossians 3:9. Compare John 3:3; Titus 3:5. The old, unrenewed
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...
Our old man — Coeval with our being, and as old as the fall; our evil nature; a strong and beautiful expression for that entire depravity and corruption which by nature spreads itself over the whole m...
By the old man we are to understand our corrupt and derived nature, so called, because it is as old as Adam, and divided from Adam; born and bred with us. This old man, or our corrupt and vicious natu...