Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Romans 6:11
Verse Romans 6:11. Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead] Die as truly unto sin, as he died for sin. Live as truly unto God, as he lives with God. This seems to be the spirit of the apostle's meaning.
Verse Romans 6:11. Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead] Die as truly unto sin, as he died for sin. Live as truly unto God, as he lives with God. This seems to be the spirit of the apostle's meaning.
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This passage is a confirmation and illustration of what the apostle had said before, Romans 6:5. The argument is, that as Christ was once dead but now lives to God, and will no more die, so we, being...
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)...
RECKON. See Romans 4:4. ALSO YOURSELVES. yourselves also. through. in. App-104. OUR LORD. The texts omit....
_Likewise_ Here is the _strict result_of the truth just stated, when the position of Christ as the Second Adam is remembered. What He did and does, as such, was done and is done by those who are "in H...
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...
ΟὝΤΩΣ Κ.Τ.Λ. sums up the argument in answer to the question in Romans 6:1. ἘΝ ΧΡ. ἸΗΣΟΥ͂, first time in this Ep. (Romans 3:24 is different). The relation hitherto has been described by διὰ (Romans 5:1...
ΛΟΓΊΖΕΣΘΕ _praes. imper. med. (dep.) от_ ΛΟΓΊΖΟΜΑΙ (G3049) считать, подводить итоги. _Praes. imper._ может значить: "делайте это постоянно" или "продолжайте делать это" (MKG, 272). ΕΊΝΑΙ _praes. inf....
DISCOURSE: 1846 THE CHRISTIAN RISEN WITH CHRIST IN NEWNESS OF LIFE Romans 6:8. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: knowing that Christ being raised from the dea...
LIKEWISE, &C.— _Thus then reckon ye yourselves,_ &c. See Colossians 3:3....
_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...
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. LIKEWISE RECKON YE ALSO YOURSELVES (EVEN AS YOUR LORD) TO BE DEAD INDEED, [ men (G33...
__ 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....
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...
THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD] RV 'in Christ Jesus,' a phrase by which St. Paul often expresses our union with the glorified Christ....
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...
Theoretical application to the readers. They are to regard themselves as dead, _i.e.,_ insensible and inaccessible to sin, but living in close allegiance and devotion to God through union with Christ....
(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...
In this verse the application is made of all that precedes. The death with Christ, the life with Christ, are real, yet to be realised. The truth of being a Christian is contained in them, yet the call...
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...
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...
“ _Thus also reckon ye yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, and alive unto God in Christ Jesus our Lord._ ” The οὕτω, _likewise_, indicates the inference to be drawn from the conformity between the...
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...
_FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE_ ‘Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.’ Romans 6:11 The Epistle to the Romans contains the very sum...
11._So count ye also yourselves_, _etc. _Now is added a definition of that analogy to which I have referred. For having stated that Christ once died to sin and lives for ever to God, he now, applying...
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...
LIKEWISE RECKON YE ALSO YOURSELVES,.... Two things the apostle would have believers consider of themselves, and reckon themselves, to be, in consequence of their relation to Christ, who was dead, but...
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Ver. 11. _Reckon ye also_] By faith, reason and reckon yourselves wholly dead in and t...
_Now if we be dead with Christ_ Conformed to his death by dying to sin; _we believe that we shall also live with him_ We have reason sufficient to assure ourselves that we shall be conformed to him in...
LIKEWISE RECKON YE; be like Christ, in dying to sin and living to God. DEAD INDEED UNTO SIN; dead in reference to sin, in the sense of putting it away from you, and having no more to do with it. ALI...
The power of Baptism:...
LIKEWISE RECKON YE ALSO YOURSELVES TO BE DEAD INDEED UNTO SIN, BUT ALIVE UNTO GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD. The fact that Christians are delivered from the power and bondage of sin is brought ou...
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,...
EVEN SO RECKON YE ALSO YOURSELVES TO BE DEAD UNTO SIN, BUT ALIVE UNTO GOD IN CHRIST JESUS. 'Even so' -in this verse the application is made of all that precedes. 'RECKON' -'Consider yourselves' (NAS...
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...
So we in like manner must make account, that by virtue of his death we are dead to sin, and by virtue of his resurrection are alive to God, and so alive as never to resume our former courses, or retur...
Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus. [At this point the apostle passes over from the symbolic union which is effected on our part by baptism, to t...
Romans 6:11 Likewise G3779 you G5210 also G2532 reckon G3049 (G5737) yourselves G1438 be G1511 (G5750) dead...
‘Even so reckon you also yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.' In the same way we as Christians are to reckon ourselves as dead to sin, but alive to God, ‘in Christ Jesus'...
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...
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...
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 6:11. THUS, or, ‘so.' This is an inference and the application to the readers. RECKON. The word may be either imperative, or indicative; the former suits the context best. ALSO; like Christ...
RECKON YE ALSO YOURSELVES (κα υμεις λογιζεσθε). Direct middle imperative of λογιζομα and complete proof that Paul does not mean that baptism makes one dead to sin and alive to God. That is a spirit...
Romans 6:9 I. The death to sin must be a death to its service as well as to its penalty, if the soul has come under that wretched bondage. There is hardly anything more emphatically and clearly laid d...
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 6:8 I. The basis of the Apostle's sentiment here is the death of Christ. The death of Christ is the fact. Christ died for our sins. Calvary, its associations, its wonderful mystery and blessedn...
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...
IN THE SAME WAY. This is the application of the first part of this chapter. The ESSENCE of our faith is a union to _him_ in which _his experience_ becomes ours. We die to sin in Christ's death; we bec...
_Now if we be dead with Christ … we shall also live with Him._ DEATH AND LIFE WITH CHRIST To be dead with Christ is to hate and turn from sin; and to live with Him is to have our hearts and minds tur...
_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 6:11 DEAD TO SIN. Dead to the continual love for and ruling power of sin (see note on v. 6). ⇐
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...
1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Peter 2:5; 1 Peter 4:11; Colossians 3:17;...
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...
Here we have two parts of our sanctification described, namely, mortification and vivification, dying unto sin, and living unto God. 1. Mortification, or dying unto sin, RECKON YE YOURSELVES TO BE DE...