“ For he that is dead is freeda from sin. ”
For he that is dead - This is evidently an expression having a proverbial aspect, designed to illustrate the sentiment just expressed. The Rabbis had an expression similar to this, “When one is d...
(5) For he that is dead is freed from sin. (5) He proves it by the effects of death, comparing Christ the head with his members.
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...
is dead . died (i.e. with Christ). is freed . has been justified, cleared from the claims of sin. App-191. from . App-104.
7. For he who has died, etc. This is an argument derived from what belongs to death or from its effect. For if death destroys all the actions of life, we who have died to sin ought to ceas...
For he that is dead is freed from sin. He that is dead is freed from sin - Δεδικαιωται, literally, is justified from sin; or, is freed or delivered from it. Does not this simply mean, that the man wh...
He that is dead is freed from sin— St. Peter seems to paraphrase this verse, 1 Peter 4:1 . He that hath suffered in the flesh, hath ceased from sin; as if he had said, "The Christian who is so r...
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Knowing this ... The apostle now grows more definite an...
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...
(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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
AIMS IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE ‘Newness of life.’ Romans 6:4 A new life springs from a new motive, goes by a new way on to a new end. From that singleness of aim and end, as soon as a man has i...
For he that is dead, is freed from sin. This is not to be understood of a natural or a corporeal death; for this is the effect of sin, and is inflicted by way of punishment for it, on Christless pe...
For he that is dead is freed from sin. Ver. 7. Is freed from sin ] Anacreon saith the like, ο θανων ουκ επιθυμει; death is the accomplishment of mortification. It doth at once what death doth by...
For Surely these two must go together; so that if we have been united to Christ by faith, (to which baptism engages us,) and have been made conformable to his death, by being dead to sin, we shall...
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...
He that is dead, i.e. to sin, is freed from it; not only in respect of the guilt thereof, which sense the marginal reading of the word seems to respect, but also in regard of the service of it. T...
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?...
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...
Romans 6:4-8 Christ's Resurrection an Image of our New Life. Our new life is like that of our risen Saviour I. In the manner of His resurrection. In order to appear to His disciples in that glor...
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?»...
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...
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death. Planted together with Christ The idea is not of two or three plants all put into the same ground, though that would to a certa...
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...
The power of Baptism:
1 Peter 4:1 ; Colossians 3:1-3 ; Romans 8:1 ; Romans 6:2 ; Romans 6:8 ; Romans 7:2 ; Romans 7:4
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...
For he that is dead — With Christ. Is freed from the guilt of past, and from the power of present, sin, as dead men from the commands of their former masters.