Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Romans 6:12
Mortal. — And therefore at variance with the immortal life just described.
Mortal. — And therefore at variance with the immortal life just described.
ROMANS 6:12 tai/j evpiqumi,aij auvtou/ {B} The reading tai/j evpiqumi,aij auvtou/, strongly supported by Alexandrian witnesses as well as by a few Western witnesses (a A B C* 81 1739 itdc, r, 61 vg s...
Verse Romans 6:12. _LET NOT SIN THEREFORE REIGN_] This is a prosopopoeia, or _personification_. Sin is represented as a _king,_ _ruler_, or _tyrant_, who has the _desires of the mind_ and the _member...
LET NOT SIN THEREFORE - This is a conclusion drawn from the previous train of reasoning. The result of all these considerations is, that sin should not be suffered to reign in us. REIGN - Have domini...
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. ...
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...
DYING TO LIVE (Romans 6:1-11)...
Let not sin reign in your mortal body to make you obey the body's desires. Do not go on yielding your members to sin as weapons of evil; but yield yourselves once and for all to God, as those who were...
MORTAL. subject to death. Greek. _thnetos._ Here, Romans 8:11; 1 Corinthians 15:53; 1 Corinthians 15:54. 2Co 4:11....
_Let not sin therefore reign_ Here begins the direct moral appeal to the will. This till now has been either withheld, (while the _Divine motive_was being explained,) or made only indirectly, as in Ro...
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...
12 FF. The suggestion of Romans 6:1 is reversed: the slave is free, the tyrant deposed, the service changed, the instruments of service refurbished, the power of service quickened. ΜῊ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΈΤΩ, pre...
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΈΤΩ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΎΩ (G936) быть царем, царствовать. _Praes. imper._ с отр. ΜΉ (G3361) означает либо: "не всегда так делайте" либо "не продолжайте" или выражает общий запрет: ...
LET NOT SIN THEREFORE REIGN IN YOUR MORTAL BODY— Sin is here spoken of as a person; a _prosopopoeia_ made use of throughout this and the following chapter; which must be observed if we will understand...
_TEXT_ Romans 6:12-14. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof: Romans 6:13 neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but...
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. LET NOT SIN THEREFORE (AS THOUGH IT WERE STILL YOUR MASTER) REIGN IN YOUR MORTAL BODY, THAT YE SHOULD O...
__ 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...
OBEY.. LUSTS] RV 'obey the lusts.'...
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...
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...
f. Practical enforcement of Romans 6:1-11. The inner life is in union with Christ, and the outer (bodily) life must not be inconsistent with it (Weiss). ἐν τῷ θνητῷ ὑμῶν σώματι : the suggestion of θνη...
“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,...
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...
(6) Let not sin therefore (o) reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. (6) An exhortation to contend and strive with corruption and all the effects of it. (o) By reign...
Let not sin, therefore, reign, &c. He compares sin and justice to two kings, or generals, under one of which every man fights in this world. Sin is the tyrant, under which fight the wicked, and make t...
“ _Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey its lusts.Neither yield ye your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that h...
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...
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. (13) Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto G...
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...
12._Let not sin then_, _etc. _He now begins with exhortation, which naturally arises from the doctrine which he had delivered respecting our fellowship with Christ. Though sin dwells in us, it is inco...
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...
LET NOT SIN THEREFORE REIGN IN YOUR MORTAL BODY,.... Since grace reigns in you, sin should not: seeing ye are dead to sin, are baptized into the death of Christ, and are dead with him, and alive throu...
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Ver. 12. _Let not sin therefore_] As if the apostle should say, we preach purity and not liberty, as the...
_Let not sin_ Any sinful disposition or inclination; _therefore_ Since you are regenerate and spiritually alive; _reign in your mortal body _ That is, reign in your soul while it dwells in your body....
LET NOT SIN THEREFORE REIGN; be not its slaves in being or doing wrong, but be the freemen and willing servants of Christ in being and doing right. IN YOUR MORTAL BODY; let not the mind be enslaved t...
The reign of sin definitely closed:...
LET NOT SIN, THEREFORE, REIGN IN YOUR MORTAL BODY THAT YE SHOULD OBEY IT IN THE LUSTS THEREOF....
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,...
__ Romans 6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof: 'Let not' -Here is the call to resist sin. Becoming. Christian doesn't remove the need for self...
11-15 The strongest motives against sin, and to enforce holiness, are here stated. Being made free from the reign of sin, alive unto God, and having the prospect of eternal life, it becomes believers...
LET NOT SIN THEREFORE: q.d. Seeing this is the case, that you are dead to sin, baptized into Christ, are planted together into the likeness of his death, &c., therefore the rather hearken to and obey...
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof :...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V And for this reason he says, in the Epistle to the Romans: "Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body, to be under its control: neither yield ye your members...
Romans 6:12 Therefore G3767 not G3361 let G936 sin G266 reign G936 (G5720) in G1722 your G5216 mortal...
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...
‘Do not therefore let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey its strong desires,' In consequence of the fact that we are dead to sin through our association with Christ's death we are not...
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...
Romans 6:12. LET NOT SIN THEREFORE. ‘Therefore' _i.e._, because you reckon yourselves dead unto sin, etc. (Romans 6:11). REIGN. ‘It is no matter of comparison between _reigning_ and _indwelling mere...
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...
REIGN (βασιλευετω). Present active imperative, "let not sin continue to reign" as it did once (Romans 5:12).MORTAL (θνητο). Verbal adjective from θνησκω, subject to death. The reign of sin is ove...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
Romans 6:11 On Realising the Ideal. I. What is the theory of the Christian's condition? As just explained by the Apostle, it is this: The Christian is a man who, like his Master, is already dead to a...
Romans 6:12 The Dual Life of Man. I. There are in every one of us opposing elements, there live within us an Adam and a Christ; the angel has us by the hand or the serpent by the heart. Plato describ...
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...
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...
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...
SIN MUST NO LONGER RULE. This shows two possibilities: (1) one who has died with Christ and been raised to new life _could_ still return to being the slave of sin (_compare_ Hebrews 6:4-6); (2) one wh...
_Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body._ THE REIGN OF SIN “Let not sin reign” because it is-- I. A tyrannic reign. 1. Sin has usurped its sway over the heart. It forms no part in the ori...
_Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus._ DEATH A DUTY The Bible speaks of three kinds of deaths. 1. That which is a necessary event--the de...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 6:12 Tension occurs here between what God has already accomplished and his people’s responsibility to obey. They are still tempted by desires to sin and must not let those desire...
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 6:12.—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...
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 15:53; 1 Corinthians 15:54; 1 John 2:15; 1 Peter 1:14;...
Reign [β α σ ι λ ε υ ε τ ω]. The antithesis implied is not between reigning and existing, but between reigning and being deposed. Body. Literal, thus according with members, ver : 13....
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...
Let not sin reign even in your mortal body — It must be subject to death, but it need not be subject to sin....
Observe here, The duty which the apostle exhorts the Christians to; and that is, to prevent the regency and dominion of sin: LET NOT REIGN IN YOUR MORTAL BODIES. But when is sin said to reign? ANSWER...