Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Romans 6:1-11
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 baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? (4) Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. (5) For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his... read more
The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Romans 6:1-23
The Gospel According to Paul (Continued) Rom 6:8 This weary but necessary "if" meets us once more. "If we be dead with Christ' but is any man dead with the Saviour? Perhaps not. He is not dead because he has retired from the world. Monasticism is not self-extinction. But does any man wish to die with the Saviour? That is enough, in the meantime. Not "if we be dead" we are all dead in trespasses and sins; that is not the death referred to; the qualifying words are "with Christ." Were we... read more