Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Romans 6:7
(5) For he that is dead is freed from sin.
(5) He proves it by the effects of death, comparing Christ the head with his members.
(5) For he that is dead is freed from sin.
(5) He proves it by the effects of death, comparing Christ the head with his members.
Verse Romans 6:7. _HE THAT IS DEAD IS FREED FROM SIN._] δεδικαιωται, literally, _is justified_ from sin; or, is _freed_ or _delivered_ from it. Does not this simply mean, that the man who has receive...
FOR HE THAT IS DEAD - This is evidently an expression having a proverbial aspect, designed to illustrate the sentiment just expressed. The Rabbis had an expression similar to this, “When one is dead h...
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)...
IS DEAD. died (i.e. with Christ). IS FREED. has been justified, cleared from the claims of sin. App-191. FROM. App-104....
_For he that is dead_, &c. Better, with a slight paraphrase, FOR HE WHO HAS ONCE DIED TO SIN NOW STANDS FREE FROM ITS CLAIM. The _legal claim_of sin is meant here, not its _moral dominion_, for the Gr...
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...
Ὁ ΓᾺΡ� then enforces the completeness of this result:= he that dies (cf. Moulton, p. 114) is acquitted of his sin for which he is put to death—he has paid the penalty and is free from further effects....
ΆΠΟΔΑΝΏΝ _aor._" _act. part. от_ ΆΠΟΘΝΉΣΚΩ (G599) умирать. _Aor._ описывает предшествующее действие. Part, является субстантивным и выражает характеристику. ΔΕΔΙΚΑΊΩΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΔΙΚΑΙΌΩ...
HE THAT IS DEAD IS FREED FROM SIN— St. Peter seems to paraphrase this verse, 1 Peter 4:1. _He that hath suffered in the flesh, hath ceased from sin;_ as if he had said, "The Christian who is so resolu...
_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....
6:7 justified (f-7) 'Free' is ambiguous. It is justified, cleared, discharged. From sin, note, not sins....
IS FREED FROM SIN] As a dead slave has completely escaped from his master's power, so one who has so believed in Christ as to be joined with Him in His death to the sin of the world, should remember t...
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...
(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...
IS FREED. — “Absolved,” the same word that is used elsewhere for “justified.” The dead man is no longer liable to have the charge of sin brought against him. This is the general proposition, the major...
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...
ὁ γὰρ ἀποθανὼν κ. τ. λ. Here we have the general principle on which the foregoing argument rests: death annuls all obligations, breaks all ties, cancels all old scores. The difficulty is that by the w...
“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...
_He that is dead is justified from sin. [1] Some translate, is freed from sin: this is true; but perhaps it is better to retain the word justified, which is observed to be a law-word used in courts of...
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...
“ _For he that is dead is of right freed from sin._ ” Many commentators, from Erasmus to Thol., De Wette, Philip., Hodge, Gess, etc., take the participle ἀποθανών, _he that is dead_, in the figurative...
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...
_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...
_FREEDOM BY DEATH_ ‘He that is dead is freed from sin.’ Romans 6:7 Christ came to be a federal Head. As the natural members of our body gather up into the natural head, so spiritual believers gathe...
7._For he who has died_, _etc. _This is an argument derived from what belongs to death or from its effect. For if death destroys all the actions of life, we who have died to sin ought to cease from th...
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...
FOR HE THAT IS DEAD, IS FREED FROM SIN. This is not to be understood of a natural or a corporeal death; for this is the effect of sin, and is inflicted by way of punishment for it, on Christless perso...
For he that is dead is freed from sin. Ver. 7. _Is freed from sin_] Anacreon saith the like, ο θανων ουκ επιθυμει; death is the accomplishment of mortification. It doth at once what death doth by deg...
_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...
FOR HE THAT IS DEAD; that is, as the context shows, he that has died to sin. Compare verse Romans 6:18....
FOR HE THAT IS DEAD IS FREED FROM SIN....
The power of Baptism:...
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,...
FREED: _ Gr._ justified...
FOR HE THAT HATH DIED IS JUSTIFIED FROM SIN. 'died' -anyone that is united with Christ (Romans 6:2-5) 'JUSTIFIED FROM SIN' -'freed from sin' (NASV); side ref., 'acquitted'. 'As. dead slave is freed...
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...
HE THAT IS DEAD, i.e. to _sin, is freed from_ it; not only in respect of the guilt thereof, which sense the marginal reading of the word seems to respect, but also in regard of the service of it. This...
for he that hath died is justified from sin....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III Wherefore also He drove him out of Paradise, and removed him far from the tree of life, not because He envied him the tree of life, as some venture to assert, but b...
Romans 6:7 For G1063 died G599 (G5631) freed G1344 (G5769) from G575 sin G266 For he -...
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...
‘For he who has died is justified from sin.' And this is because, having positionally died with Christ (read in on the basis of the previous verses), we are ‘accounted as righteous' from sin. Sin has...
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...
Romans 6:7. FOR HE THAT HATH DIED. ‘He that died' is more literal, but ‘hath died' better expresses the relation to what follows. IS ACQUITTED (lit., ‘justified') FROM SIN. This is the permanent resu...
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...
IS JUSTIFIED (δεδικαιωτα). Perfect passive indicative of δικαιοω, stands justified, set free from, adding this great word to death and life of verses Romans 6:1; Romans 6:2....
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 6:7 I. "For he that hath died," as it should be rendered, "is justified from sin." The moment the Spirit of God works within the human soul a conviction of sin, there springs up an intense long...
Romans 6:7 Christ's Death to Sin. When we ask what is meant by affirming of Christ, "The death that He died, He died unto sin," two questions emerge. (1) What connection had Jesus with sin before H...
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...
FOR WHEN A PERSON DIES. The claim sin has over a person, ends at death. The death of a slave terminated his period of slavery....
_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 6:1 The law does not and cannot conquer sin, but the grace given to followers of Christ triumphs over sin and death. ⇐...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 6:7 ONE WHO HAS DIED means one who has died with Christ. ⇐ ⇔
_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 Peter 4:1; Colossians 3:1; Romans 8:1; Romans 6:2; Romans 6:8;...
Is freed [δ ε δ ι κ α ι ω τ α ι]. Lit., as Rev., is justified; i e., acquitted, absolved; just as the dead person sins no more, being released from sin as from a legal claim. "As a man that is dead is...
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...
For he that is dead — With Christ. Is freed from the guilt of past, and from the power of present, sin, as dead men from the commands of their former masters....
HE THAT IS DEAD, that is, spiritually dead unto sin, in conformity to the death of Christ, IS FREED FROM SIN: That is, not only from the guilt, but from the dominion and slavery of sin. Learn hence,...