Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Romans 6:18
Ye became the servants. — Comp. “Whose service is perfect freedom,” adopted from St. Augustine.
Ye became the servants. — Comp. “Whose service is perfect freedom,” adopted from St. Augustine.
Verse Romans 6:18. _BEING THEN MADE FREE FROM SIN_] ελευθερωθεντες is a term that refers to the _manumission_ of a _slave_. They were _redeemed_ from the slavery of sin, and became the servants of ri...
“Being then made free from sin.” That is, as a master. You are not under its dominion; you are no longer its slaves. They were made free, as a servant is who is set at liberty, and who is, therefore,...
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)...
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...
BEING... FREE _=_ Having, then, been set free. Greek. _eleutheroo._ Only here, Romans 6:22; Romans 8:2; Romans 8:21. Joh 8:32, John 8:36;...
_Being then_, &c. This verse is a brief summary, in more direct terms, of the previous two verses. The emphasis is the reality, and immediateness, of the new servitude. "_Then:_" better, BUT. A slight...
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...
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...
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...
ἘΔΟΥΛΏΘΗΤΕ ΤΗ͂Ι ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣΎΝΗΙ. The correct antithesis which was avoided in Romans 6:16 is now given, because the sense in which ἡ δικ. is to be taken has been made clear in the preceding sentence; _Art....
ΈΛΕΥΘΕΡΩΘΈΝΤΕΣ _aor. pass. part. от_ ΈΛΕΥΘΕΡΌΩ (G1659) освобождать, делать свободным. _Aor._ выражает логически предшествующее действие. Temp. _part._ ("после"), или, возможно, причинное, ΈΔΟΥΛΏΘΗΤΕ...
_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...
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. BEING THEN - it should be, 'And being;' for we have here but the continuation and conclusion of the preceding sentence-not a...
__ 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...
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 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...
There is no absolute independence for man; our nature requires us to serve _some_ master....
“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...
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...
_ VV._ 16-19 describe the new subjection (_to righteousness_) by which grace displaces the old subjection (_to sin_)....
“ _Now God be thanked that ye were the servants of sin, but ye obeyed from the heart that type of doctrine which was delivered you; then being made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousne...
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...
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...
18._And having been made free from sin, etc. _The meaning is, “It is unreasonable that any one, after having been made free, should continue in a state of bondage; for he ought to maintain the freedom...
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...
BEING THEN MADE FREE FROM SIN,.... Not from a sinful nature; nor from a corrupt heart; nor from vain thoughts; nor from sinful words; nor from sinful actions altogether; but from the damning power of...
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. Ver. 18. _Versus est planus, _ saith Pareus....
_What then_ are we to infer? _Shall we sin_ Go on in our transgressions; _because we are not under the law_ Under the law of Moses, or any mere legal dispensation which forbids sin, but gives no stren...
MADE FREE; from the slavery of sin. SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS; by believing and obeying Christ....
THE SERVICE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. The impelling power of this service:...
BEING, THEN, MADE FREE FROM SIN, YE BECAME THE SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. The apostle finds it necessary once more to obviate a possible misunderstanding, a false conclusion which might be made from t...
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 6:18 and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness. 'and being' -'Being THEN made free from sin' (KJV). Indicating that one is freed from sin at the point that they obey...
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...
MADE FREE FROM SIN; i.e. the servitude of sin; having received a manumission from that hard and evil master, you have given tap yourselves to a better and more ingenuous service....
and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness....
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‘But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were servants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered, and being made free from sin, you became servant...
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 ...
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...
Romans 6:18. AND BEING MADE FREE, etc. This is not the conclusion from what precedes, but a continuation of Romans 6:17. The single act of deliverance and transformation is referred to. BECAME SERVAN...
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...
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...
YE BECAME SERVANTS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS (εδουλωθητε τη δικαιοσυνη). First aorist passive indicative of δουλοω, to enslave. "Ye were made slaves to righteousness." You have simply changed masters, no lo...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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:...
Romans 6:18 The Strictness of the Law of Christ. I. Religion is a necessary service; of course it is a privilege too, but it becomes more and more of a privilege the more we exercise ourselves in it....
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?»...
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?_ The fifth chapter ends up in this way, that «where sin abounded, etc… Jesus Christ our Lord.» Then he goes on t...
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...
YOU WERE SET FREE FROM SIN. When they died to sin and were baptized into union with Christ's death (Romans 6:3-4). AND BECAME THE SLAVES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. _"You do not belong to yourselves but to God;...
_Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey._ THE SERVICE OF SIN AND THE SERVICE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS I. The criterion of both--obedience. A disobedient servant is a contradiction in t...
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 7:21; 1 Corinthians 7:22; 1 Peter 2:16; Galatians 5:1;...
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...
Being then set free from sin — We may see the apostles method thus far at one view: — 1. Bondage to sin Romans 3:9. 2. The knowledge of sin by the law; a sense of God's wrath; inward death Romans 3:...
Our apostle goes on to put the Romans in mind of their past state by nature, and of their present state by grace; they were once the servants of sin, but now free from sin, and made by Christ servants...