Romans 6:16

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? KNOW YE NOT - Does not everyone know that dictate of common sense (), THAT TO WHOM YE YIELD YOURSELVES SERVANTS TO OBEY ('UNTO OBEDIENCE'), HIS SERVANTS YE ARE TO WHOM YE OBEY - to whom ye yield that obedience, WHETHER OF SIN UNTO DEATH - that is, 'issuing in death' (in the awful sense explained on Romans 5:12, Remark 3, at the close of that section), OR OF OBEDIENCE UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS - that is, resulting in a righteous character as the enduring and eternal condition of the servant of new Obedience (see...

16._By no means: know ye not? _This is not a bare denial as some think, as though he preferred to express his abhorrence of such a question rather than to disprove it: for a confutation immediately follows, derived from a contrary supposition, and to this purpose, “Between the yoke of Christ and that of sin there is so much contrariety, that no one can bear them both; if we sin, we give ourselves up to the service of sin; but the faithful, on the contrary have been redeemed from the tyranny of sin, that they may serve Christ: it is therefore impossible for them to remain bound to sin.” But it will be better to examine more closely the course of reasoning, as pursued by Paul. _To whom we obey_, _etc. _This relative may be taken in a causative sense, as it often is; as when one says, — there is no kind of crime which a parricide will not do, who has not hesitated to commit the greatest cri...

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 obedience implanted by regeneration. The apostle rejoiced now they obeyed from the heart the gospel, into which they were delivered as into a mould. As the same metal becomes a new vessel, when melted and recast in another mould, so the believer has become a new creature. And there is great difference in the liberty of mind and spirit, so opposite to the state of slavery, which the true Christian has in the service of his rightful Lord, whom he is enabled to consider as his Father, and himself as his son and heir, by the adoption of grace. The dominion of sin consists in being willingly slaves thereto, not in being harassed by it as a hated power, struggling for victory. Those who now are the servant...

Verse Romans 6:16. _TO WHOM YE YIELD YOURSELVES_] Can you suppose that you should continue to be the _servants_ of Christ if ye give way to _sin_? Is he not the _master_ who exacts the _service_, and to whom the service is performed? _Sin_ is the service of _Satan;_ _righteousness_ the service of _Christ_. If ye sin ye are the servants of Satan, and not the servants of God. The word δουλος, which we translate _servant_, properly signifies _slave_; and a slave among the Greeks and Romans was considered as his _master's property_, and he might dispose of him as he pleased. Under a _bad_ master, the lot of the slave was most oppressive and dreadful; his ease and comfort were never consulted; he was treated worse than a beast; and, in many cases, his life hung on the mere caprice of the master. This state is the

KNOW YE NOT ... - The objection noticed in Romans 6:15, the apostle answers by a reference to the known laws of servitude or slavery, Romans 6:16, and by showing that Christians, who had been the slaves of sin, have now become the servants of righteousness, and were therefore bound by the proper laws of servitude to obey their new master: as if he had said, “I assume that you know: you are acquainted with the laws of servitude; you know what is required in such cases.” This would be known to all who had been either masters or slaves, or who had observed the usual laws and obligations of servitude. TO WHOM YE YIELD YOURSELVES - To whom ye give up yourselves for servitude or obedience. The apostle here refers to voluntary servitude; but wh

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 1:17), set forth as available for all mankind (Romans 3:21), shown to be in accordance with the teaching of the Old Testament (Romans 4:1), viewed with regard to the feelings and hopes of believers fell Romans 5:1) and to the position of the human race before God ...

KNOW YE NOT, THAT TO WHOM YE YIELD YOURSELVES,.... The apostle goes on with his answer to the above objection, by making use of an argument from the nature of servants and their obedience, a thing well known to everyone, and which none could be ignorant of; which he delivers by way of distribution, that such who yield themselves SERVANTS TO OBEY, HIS SERVANTS YE ARE TO WHOM YE OBEY, WHETHER OF SIN UNTO DEATH, OR OBEDIENCE UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS: such who obey sin, are the servants of sin; they are at the beck and command of sin; they give up themselves to the service of it with delight and diligence, and are perfect drudges to it: this is a very unhappy situation; their service is very unreasonable; and they are rendered incapable of serving God, for no man can serve two masters; they are hereby brought into the drudgery of the devil; into a state of bondage, out of which nothing but grace...

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?» What inference shall we draw from the super-abounding of grace over sin? Romans 6:1. _What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?_ «Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?» That were very horrible inference. It is one great instance of the shocking depravity of man that the inference has been drawn sometimes, I hope not often, for surely Satan himself might scarcely draw an inference of licentiousness from love. Still, some have drawn it. Romans 6:2. _God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?_ Now, he

SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...

ROMANS 6:16 eivj qa,naton The words eivj qa,naton, strongly supported by a A B C G K P Y 33 81 330 614 itg, 61 syrh, pal copbo armmss eth _al_, are absent from a few witnesses, chiefly versional and patristic (D 1739* itd, r vg syrp copsa arm Origenlat Ambrosiaster Ephraem). Since the phrase seems to be necessary as a correlative to the following phrase eivj dikaiosu,nhn, a majority of the Committee was disposed to regard their omission as an unintentional oversight....