Romans 6:4

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Romans 6:3-4

Our baptism into (with respect to) Jesus Christ resulted in our death to sin."It appears that Paul had both the literal and figurative in mind in this paragraph, for he used the readers’ experience of water baptism to remind them of their identification with Christ through the baptism of the Holy Spirit." [Note: Wiersbe, 1:531.] "Baptism . . . functions as shorthand for the conversion experience as a whole." [Note: Moo, p. 355.] Water baptism for the early Christians was an initiation into... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 6:1-23

The New Righteousness in Union with ChristSt. 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 -’Does not this teaching of pardon by God’s free favour practically encourage sin?’ The objection is stated in two forms (Romans 6:1, Romans 6:15). The Apostle not only answers his opponents: he is still more concerned to build up his readers in a holy life. He opposes to the objection the fact of the... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 6:1-39

St. Paul has finished his exposition of Justification (Romans 3:19 to Romans 5:21), and now passes to Sanctification. In other words, having shown how the believer is delivered from the guilt of sin, he goes on to show how he is delivered from its power.Romans 6 shows the Christian abiding in living union with the risen Christ by the power of faith. Romans 7 describes the failure of the most earnest life apart from Christ. Romans 8 shows Christ abiding in the Christian by the power of the... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 6:1-5

VI.(1-5) These considerations might seem to lead to an Antinomian conclusion. If the increase of sin has only led to a larger measure of forgiveness it might be thought well to continue in sin, and so to enhance the measure and glory of forgiving grace. But to the Christian this is impossible. In regard to sin he is, in theory and principle, dead. When he was converted from heathenism and received Christian baptism he gave himself up unreservedly to Christ; he professed adhesion to Christ, and... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 6:4

(4) We are buried with him.—Burial, is the consequence of death. It is the seal set upon it, as it were, which shows that no revival is possible. Besides, it is the one step which separates it from resurrection. The idea of “buried with Christ” is therefore introduced, on the one hand, to show that the ethical death with Him was final and decisive, and on the other, to prepare the way for an ethical (as well as physical) resurrection with Him.Into death.—The ideas of physical and moral death... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Romans 6:1-23

No Compromise Romans 6:2 I. What did the Apostle mean by the Words Dead unto Sin? (1) He meant death of the Judicial Penalty of Sin beyond the power of sin to inflict its penalty upon us. The judicial idea runs through the whole Epistle. A criminal who has served his term of imprisonment for an offence against the law, at the expiration of his sentence is dead to that particular crime. The penalty will not be exacted of him twice over. Even so the Christian, who implicitly accepts Christ's... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Romans 6:1-13

Chapter 14JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESSRomans 6:1-13IN a certain sense, St. Paul has done now with the exposition of Justification. He has brought us on, from his denunciation of human sin, and his detection of the futility of mere privilege, to propitiation, to faith, to acceptance, to love, to joy, and hope, and finally to our mysterious but real connection in all this blessing with Him who won our peace. From this point onwards we shall find many mentions of our acceptance, and of its Cause; we... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Romans 6:1-23

CHAPTER 6 1. Dead with Christ to Sin. (Romans 6:1-7 .) 2. Risen with Christ and Alive to God. (Romans 6:8-11 .) 3. Sin shall Not Have Dominion. (Romans 6:12-14 .) 4. Servants to Righteousness. (Romans 6:15-23 .) Romans 6:1-7 We have learned from the previous chapter that the justified believer is in Christ and fully identified with Him. God sees the believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, no longer in Adam, but in Christ, the head of a new creation. “So if any one be in Christ, it is a new... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Romans 6:4

6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead {d} by the glory of the Father, even so {e} we also should walk in newness of life.(d) So that Christ himself, being released of his infirmity and weakness, might live in glory with God forever.(e) And we who are his members rise for this purpose, that being made partakers of the very same power, we should begin to lead a new life, as though we were already in heaven. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 6:1-23

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 sin had reigned, grace abundantly above the enormity of the sin - there is a question that some would be much inclined to raise. The apostle anticipates and answers this in lovely, incontestable style. "What shall we say then?" What conclusion can be deduced from the plain truth of grace abounding over... read more

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