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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 6:1-23

The apostle's transition, which joins this discourse with the former, is observable: ?What shall we say then? Rom. 6:1. What use shall we make of this sweet and comfortable doctrine? Shall we do evil that good may come, as some say we do? Rom. 3:8. Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Shall we hence take encouragement to sin with so much the more boldness, because the more sin we commit the more will the grace of God be magnified in our pardon? Isa. this a use to be made of it?? No,... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 6:1-11

6:1-11 What, then, shall we infer? Are we to persist in sin that grace may abound? God forbid! How shall we who have died to sin still live in it? Can you be unaware that all who have been baptized into Jesus Christ have been baptized into his death? We have therefore been buried with him through baptism until we died, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the father, so we, too, may live in newness of life. For, if we have become united to him in the... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 6:12-14

6:12-14 Let not sin reign in your mortal body to make you obey the body's desires. Do not go on yielding your members to sin as weapons of evil; but yield yourselves once and for all to God, as those who were dead and are now alive, and yield your members to God as weapons of righteousness. For sin will not lord it over you. You are not under law but under grace. There is no more typical transition in Paul than that between this passage and the preceding one. The passage which went before... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 6:11

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves ,.... Two things the apostle would have believers consider of themselves, and reckon themselves, to be, in consequence of their relation to Christ, who was dead, but is alive, and as agreeable thereunto: the one is, that they would look upon themselves to be dead indeed unto sin : believe their discharge from it, and not fear condemnation and death on account of it; and that it shall not be imputed to them, or have any damning power over them, since... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 6:12

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body ,.... Since grace reigns in you, sin should not: seeing ye are dead to sin, are baptized into the death of Christ, and are dead with him, and alive through him, sin therefore should not reign in you, and over you. This exhortation does not suppose a freewill power in man naturally, for this is spoken to persons, who had the Spirit and grace of Christ, and in whom God had wrought both to will and to do of his good pleasure; nor is this... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 6:13

Neither yield ye your members ,.... The apostle more fully explains what he means by obeying sin in the lusts thereof; a presenting, or making use of the "members, as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin": by their "members" he means the several powers and faculties of the soul, and so the Ethiopic version renders it, "your souls"; or the several parts of the body, or both; by "yielding", or presenting of them, is designed the employment of them in the service of sin, as instruments of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 6:14

For sin shall not have dominion over you ,.... It has dominion over God's people in a state of unregeneracy: and after conversion it is still in them, and has great power oftentimes to hinder that which is good, and to effect that which is evil; it entices and ensnares, and brings into captivity, and seems as though it would regain its dominion, and reign again, but it shall not. This is not a precept, exhortation, or admonition, as before, though some read it as such, "let not sin have... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 6:11

Reckon ye also yourselves to be dead - Die as truly unto sin, as he died for sin. Live as truly unto God, as he lives with God. This seems to be the spirit of the apostle's meaning. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 6:12

Let not sin therefore reign - This is a prosopopoeia, or personification. Sin is represented as a king, ruler, or tyrant, who has the desires of the mind and the members of the body under his control so that by influencing the passions he governs the body. Do not let sin reign, do not let him work; that is, let him have no place, no being in your souls; because, wherever he is he governs, less or more: and indeed sin is not sin without this. How is sin known? By evil influences in the mind,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 6:13

Neither yield ye your members - Do not yield to temptation. It is no sin to be tempted, the sin lies in yielding. While the sin exists only in Satan's solicitation, it is the devil's sin, not ours: when we yield, we make the devil's sin our own: then we Enter Into temptation. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Satan himself cannot force you to sin: till he wins over your will, he cannot bring you into subjection. You may be tempted; but yield not to the temptation. Yield... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Romans 6:1-23

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 6:1-11

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Romans 6:12-14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 6:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 6:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 6:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Romans 6:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 6:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 6:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 6:13

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