What does Romans 6:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine whichc was delivered you."
Verse Romans 6:17. _BUT GOD BE THANKED, THAT YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF_ _SIN_] This verse should be read thus: _But thanks be to God that,_ _although ye were the servants of sin, nevertheless ye have ob...
BUT GOD BE THANKED - The argument in this verse is drawn from a direct appeal to the feelings of the Roman Christians themselves. From their experience, Paul was able to draw a demonstration to his pu...
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. (Romans...
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)...
BUT... THANKED. But thanks (Greek. _charis_. App-184.) to God. Compare 1 Corinthians 15:57. WERE. But that service is past. FORM. Greek. _tupos._ See Romans 5:14. DOCTRINE. teaching. Greek. _didach...
_that ye were_ i.e. obviously, "that whereas you were, &c." _servants of sin_ Such, without exception, was the former state and position of the justified. They were ruled by the principles, and under...
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...
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DISCOURSE: 1848 CONVERSION A GROUND OF THANKSGIVING Romans 6:17. _God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you_....
BUT GOD BE THANKED— Here the Apostle thanks God, that whereas they had been _heathens,_ and so ranked among the _servants of sin,_ they were now become Christians, and consequently ranked among the se...
_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...
But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. BUT GOD BE THANKED, THAT YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF SIN, BUT - 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. But...
(15-23) _Free_ forgiveness! What does that mean? Freedom to sin? Far from it. That were to return into the old slavery. To yield to sin is to be the servant or slave of sin with its consequence — deat...
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...
Paul thanks God that his readers have already made their choice, and made it for obedience. ὅτι ἦτε … ὑπηκούσατε δὲ : the co-ordination seems to imply that Paul is grateful (1) that their servitude to...
“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...
(9) But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that (s) form of doctrine which was delivered you. (9) By nature we are slaves to sin and free from righteo...
_Thanks be to God, &c. He thanks God, not because they had been in sin, but because after having been so long under the slavery of sin, they had now been converted from their heart, and with their who...
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...
But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. I pause over this verse to consider it alone, as it stands, in my...
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...
17._But thanks be to God_, _etc. _This is an application of the similitude of the present subject. Though they were only to be reminded that they were not now the servants of sin, he yet adds a thanks...
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...
BUT GOD BE THANKED THAT YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF SIN,.... Not that the apostle must be thought to give thanks to God for that these persons had been the servants of sin, than which nothing is more disa...
But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Ver. 17. _That form of doctrine_] Gr. "That type or mould;" the...
_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...
GOD BE THANKED; that they who were the servants of sin had forsaken it, and believed on the Lord Jesus Christ....
THE SERVICE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. The impelling power of this service:...
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 h...
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,...
WHICH WAS DELIVERED YOU: _ Gr._ whereto ye were delivered...
__ Romans 6:17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered; 'Thanks be to God' -'Thank God for...
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...
BUT GOD BE THANKED, THAT YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF SIN: q.d. But as for you, God be thanked, that though once you were the servants of sin, viz. when you were ignorant and unregenerate, yet now you are...
But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;...
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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...
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...
WHEREAS YE WERE (ητε). Imperfect but no "whereas" in the Greek. Paul is not grateful that they were once slaves of sin, but only that, though they once were, they turned from that state.TO THAT FOR...
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:...
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 C...
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...
BUT THANKS BE TO GOD! Paul gives thanks to God that his readers have already made their choice - to obey God! THE TRUTHS FOUND IN THE TEACHING YOU RECEIVED. Paul points back to their baptism as a _poi...
_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...
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. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for...
_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 Chronicles 29:12; 1 Corinthians 1:4; 1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 2:9; 1 Peter 3:1; 1 Peter 4:17; 1 Peter 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 1:2;...
That ye were. The peculiar form of expression is explained in two ways; either making the thanksgiving bear only on the second proposition, ye obeyed, etc., and regarding the first as inserted by way...
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...
The form of doctrine into which ye have been delivered — Literally it is, The mould into which ye have been delivered; which, as it contains a beautiful allusion, conveys also a very instructive admon...
We must understand these words, as if the apostle blessed God, because they were once slaves to sin and Satan: but thanks God, that the time of that bondage was past and over; as if he had said, "God...