Romans 6:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. ”

• Romans 6:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  This passage is a confirmation and illustration of what the apostle had said before, Romans 6:5-7 . The argument is, that as Christ was once dead but now lives to God, and will no more die, so we,...

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• Romans 6:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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; i...

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• Romans 6:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  reckon . See Romans 4:4 . also yourselves . yourselves also. through. in. App-104. our Lord . The texts omit.

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• Romans 6:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  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,...

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• Romans 6:11 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1846 THE CHRISTIAN RISEN WITH CHRIST IN NEWNESS OF LIFE Romans 6:8-11 . Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: knowing that Christ being raised fr...

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• Romans 6:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead - Die as truly unto sin, as he died for sin. Live...

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• Romans 6:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Likewise, &c.— Thus then reckon ye yourselves, &c. See Colossians 3:3 .

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• Romans 6:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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, х...

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• Romans 6:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 -'Do...

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• Romans 6:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (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...

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• Romans 6:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 14 JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS Romans 6:1-13 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, an...

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• Romans 6:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Dead unto Sin, but Alive unto God” Romans 6:1-11 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...

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• Romans 6:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 a...

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• Romans 6:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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 bapti...

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• Romans 6:11 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  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 ver...

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• Romans 6:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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, b...

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• Romans 6:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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 an...

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• Romans 6:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 i...

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• Romans 6:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 si...

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• Romans 6:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  On Sanctification. A. D.  58.       1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace ma...

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• Romans 6:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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 retu...

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• Romans 6:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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?...

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• Romans 6:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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 (Wo...

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• Romans 6:11 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Romans 6:8-11 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 b...

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• Romans 6:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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?»...

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• Romans 6:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 t...

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• Romans 6:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Romans 6:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Romans 8:1-45 (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 gos...

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• Romans 6:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The power of Baptism:

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• Romans 6:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 6:20 ; 1 Peter 2:5 ; 1 Peter 4:11 ; Colossians 3:17 ; Colossians 3:3-5 ; Ephesians 2:7 ; Galatians 2:19 ; Galatians 2:20 ; John 20:31 ; Philippians 1:11 ; Philippians 4:7 ;...

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• Romans 6:11 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Shall We Continue in Sin? Romans 6:1-23 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 moral...

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