“For one who has died has been set free from sin.” -Romans 6:7 Death, it has been said, is the great equalizer of men. Death puts everyone it touches out of commission. It takes from him all his accomplishments and all of his future. For the man in prison, death frees him from his cell. […]
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Crucified With Christ
“We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.” -Romans 6:6 Using an old man/new man narrative, Paul now begins to expound on the theological mechanics of that which he asserted in […]
United With Him
“For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.” -Romans 6:5 The word translated united in this verse is the Greek word συμφυτος (symphytos), meaning organically united. The AV (KJV) translates it planted. It could also be translated engrafted. […]
Baptized Into Christ’s Death
“Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.” […]
By No Means!
“What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?” -Romans 6:1–2 Now we see what profound depths of God’s wisdom and saving grace Paul must plunder in order to make the gospel, so clearly laid […]
Grace Abounded All the More
“Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” -Romans 5:20–21 Paul now explains why the law was brought into the picture. In verses […]
Two Adams, Two Headships
“Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.” -Romans 5:18–19 Paul, continuing his comparison, summarizes the […]
We Shall Reign in Life
“For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.” -Romans 5:17 Before moving to the next point of Paul’s argument, it is worth considering more deeply […]
Two Adams Contrasted
Romans 5:15–17 (ESV): 15 But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many. 16 And the free gift is not like the result of that one […]
The First Adam
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned— 13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even […]