Romans 6:20
What meaning of the romans 6:20 in the Bible?
What does Romans 6:20 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness."
What does Romans 6:20 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness."
Verse Romans 6:20. _YE WERE FREE FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS._] These two servitudes are incompatible; if we cannot serve _God_ and _Mammon_, surely we cannot serve _Christ_ and _Satan_. We must be either _sin...
YE WERE FREE FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS - That is, in your former state, you were not at all under the influence of righteousness. You were entirely devoted to sin; a strong expression of total depravity. It...
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)...
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_For when_, &c. This verse enforces the exhortation just given, by reminding the Christian that once he was emphatically _not_the "bond-servant of righteousness." _free from righteousness_ Lit. FREE...
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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_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...
For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. FOR WHEN YE WERE THE SERVANTS ('WERE SERVANTS') OF SIN, YE WERE FREE FROM (RATHER, 'IN RESPECT OF') RIGHTEOUSNESS - [ eleuther...
__ 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...
In every state in which man lives, there is a bondage and a liberty. In the old state, it was bondage to sin, and liberty in relation to righteousness. For τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ see Winer, 263....
“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...
For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were (t) free from righteousness. (t) Righteousness had no rule over you....
_You were free from justice; that is, says St. John Chrysostom, you lived as no ways subject to justice, nor obedient to the law and precepts of God: an unhappy freedom, a miserable liberty, worse tha...
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...
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...
_SLAVES OF SIN_ ‘When ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.’ Romans 6:20 St. Paul encourages the Christian to remember the bondage of sin, that he may appreciate the blessin...
20._For when ye were, etc. _He still repeats the difference, which he had before mentioned, between the yoke of righteousness and that of sin; for these two things, sin and righteousness, are so contr...
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 WHEN YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF SIN,.... This is an argument used, or a reason given, why regenerate persons should be diligent in the service of righteousness; because when they were employed in the...
For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. Ver. 20. _Free from righteousness_] That is, utterly void of grace, and did therefore sin lustily and horribly, earnestly opposi...
_I speak after the manner of men_ He seems to mean that his reasoning was taken from the customs of men, and was accommodated to their apprehension; and that he used metaphors and allegories which wer...
WHEN YE WERE THE SERVANTS OF SIN; were wholly devoted to it. FREE FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS; not in any way under its control-a most miserable freedom, as the apostle proceeds to show....
Servants of righteousness unto everlasting life:...
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,...
FROM RIGHTEOUSNESS: _ Gr._ to righteousness...
__ Romans 6:20 For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness. 'free in regard of righteousness' -sin, not righteousness was your master then....
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...
q.d. When you served sin, you knew that God and righteousness had no whit of your service; why then should sin have any of your service now, when ye have delivered up yourselves to righteousness, or g...
For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness. [Whole-hearted service to God is now no more than you, by your past conduct, recognized as reasonable. For when ye were serva...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord."[14]...
Romans 6:20 For G1063 when G3753 were G2258 (G5713) slaves G1401 sin G266 were G2258 (G5713) free G1658 righteousness G1343 the servants - Romans 6:16-17; John 8:34 from - Gr. to...
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...
FREE IN REGARD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS (ελευθερο τη δικαιοσυνη). Ye wore no collar of righteousness, but freely did as ye pleased. They were "free." Note dative case, personal relation, of δικαιοσυνη....
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 6:1. _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...
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...
WHEN YOU WERE SLAVES OF SIN. It is a reasonable thing to devote yourself to God in righteousness, because when you were a slave of sin, you gave no obedience to righteousness....
_I speak after the manner of men._ APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION I. Its method. “After the manner of men,” _i.e., _(Gr_._) humanly--as men ordinarily speak, borrowing any illustrations from common life. Spi...
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...
John 8:34; Romans 6:16; Romans 6:17...
Free from righteousness [ε λ ε υ θ ε ρ ο ι τ η δ ι κ α ι ο σ υ ν η]. An ambiguous translation. Better, Rev., free in regard of righteousness. Disengaged (Morison), practically independent of its deman...
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...
When ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness — In all reason, therefore, ye ought now to be free from unrighteousness; to be as uniform and zealous in serving God as ye were in se...
That is, you were free DE FACTO, not DE JURE; when you were sin's servants, you were void of righteousness, THAT had no part of your service then; therefore sin should not have on joy of your service...