But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. -Romans 6:22 For when in the previous verses described their condition before Christ. But now describes their condition in Christ presently: they are no longer slaves to […]
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When You Were Slaves You Were Free
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. -Romans 6:20–21 (ESV) Using the principle of contraries (slave vs. free, sin vs. righteousness), Paul […]
So Now
“I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.” -Romans 6:19 All of God’s revelation is a matter of condescension. Human reason […]
Free Indeed
“But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.” -Romans 6:17–18 Paul now gives thanks to God for the conversion that has taken […]
You Are Slaves of the One You Obey
“Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?” -Romans 6:16 When Paul said By no means! in response to his rhetorical question as to whether or […]
What Then? Are We To Sin…?
“What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!” -Romans 6:15 At this point Paul is compelled to provide a refutatio for what he anticipates to be the next carnal argument against what he is teaching. In the previous verse (Romans 6:14), he had stated emphatically, […]
Not Under The Law But Under Grace
“Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no […]
So You Also
“For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.” -Romans 6:10–11 Paul now applies to the present purpose of his letter his argument that we are in […]
The Dominion of Death
“We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.” -Romans 6:9 All humanity lives under the dominion of Death. In the modern world, humanity seeks to elude Death at all costs. They are obsessed with their god Progress and with progress’s priest, Science, whom […]
IF We Have Died With Christ
“Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.” -Romans 6:8 Paul repeats what he said earlier (vs.4) that he might set the stage for what follows, namely that Christian must pursue the newness of life while they remain in their earthly tabernacle the same way they mortify […]