“ For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. ”
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...
For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were (t) free from righteousness. (t) Righteousness had no rule over you.
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, thoug...
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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,...
For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. Ye were free from righteousness - These two servitudes are incompatible; if we cannot serve God and Mammon, surely we cannot ser...
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 - х...
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...
(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 — dea...
Chapter 15 JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HUMAN LIFE Romans 6:14-23 - Romans 7:1-6 AT the point we have now reached, the Apostle's thought pauses for a moment, to resume. He...
“Sin Shall not Have Dominion” Romans 6:12-23 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 t...
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...
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 un...
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 bl...
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...
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 opp...
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 we...
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...
On Sanctification. A. D. 58. 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace ma...
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...
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 ende...
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...
Romans 6:15-23 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...
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 there...
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...
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....
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...
Servants of righteousness unto everlasting life:
John 8:34 ; Romans 6:16 ; Romans 6:17
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...
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...