Romans 6:13

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 6:1-23

Salvation To The Uttermost (5:1-8:39). The depths of our sin having been revealed in Romans 1:17 to Romans 3:23, and Jesus Christ’s activity, (His activity in bringing about our salvation through the cross by means of the reckoning to us of His righteousness by faith), having been made known in Romans 3:24 to Romans 4:25, Paul now sets about demonstrating the consequences of this for all true believers (Romans 5:1 to Romans 8:39). He wants us immediately to recognise that being ‘accounted as... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 6:13

‘Nor go on presenting your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.’ So we are no longer to ‘go on presenting’ our ‘members’ (the parts of our body) to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. That was part of the old life. We must control the eye, the ear, the mouth, the hand, the foot, the mind, the will. If they cause us to offend we must metaphorically ‘cut them off and... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 6:12-23

Romans 6:12-Isaiah : . The Christian’ s Severance from Sin. Romans 6:12 f. The conflict turns on the possession of the body: sin and God both claim the use of your “ limbs” ; sin must not “ reign in your mortal body,” though that body is in death’ s domain ( Romans 7:25, Romans 8:10 f.; cf. Romans 5:21). With the new man “ living to God in Christ Jesus” ( Romans 6:11), his “ limbs must be presented for weapons of righteousness,” no longer to be plied against God ( cf. Romans 12:1; 1... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 6:13

He fitly compares our bodily members to tools that artificers work, or weapons that soldiers fight withal; for as those, so these, may be used well or ill: e.g. With the hand one man giveth an alms, another stealeth; with the tongue one man blesseth, another curseth. By members here we are not only to understand the parts of the body, as the hands, eyes, ears, &c.; but also the faculties of the soul, as the understanding, will, affections, &c. These bear some proportion to the bodily... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 6:12-21

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 6:12.—Sin works bodily desires as the utterances of itself, obedience to which gives it its domain in the body (Wordsworth). Sin personified as a sort of rival sovereign or deity.Romans 6:13.—Do not wield arms for sin. Be as one who has come out of the world of the dead into that of the living, and whose present life has nothing in common with the former.Romans 6:14. Under grace.—Both justifying and renewing. In the evangelical state in which grace is offered and bestowed... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 6:11-14

Romans 6:11-14 On Realising the Ideal. I. What is the theory of the Christian's condition? As just explained by the Apostle, it is this: The Christian is a man who, like his Master, is already dead to all sin and alive only towards God. He has ceased, in other words, to have anything further to do with sin. With God he has everything further to do. This has resulted, as a matter of course, from the close union, or, as it were, incorporation, which his faith has effected betwixt him and Jesus... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Romans 6:13

unrighteousness Righteousness. Romans 6:13; Romans 6:16; Romans 6:18; Romans 6:19; Romans 6:20 (See Scofield "Romans 6:20- :") . sin Sin. (See Scofield "Romans 6:20- :") . read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Romans 6:1-23

Chapter 6What shall we say then? ( Romans 6:1 )If where sin abounds, grace does much more abound,Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? ( Romans 6:1 )No. Let's let God reveal how much grace there is by continuing in sin. Paul's answer is typical:God forbid ( Romans 6:2 ).Now he gives to you the new principal of life.How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? ( Romans 6:2 )I have received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. In receiving Jesus Christ as my Lord and... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Romans 6:1-23

Romans 6:1 . Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? The apostle having said, that as sin had abounded by the entrance of the law, so grace had much more abounded by the proclamation of the gospel, proceeds now to rebut the malicious slander of the jews, who had said, as in chap. Romans 3:8, that the christian doctrine encouraged men to do evil that good might come, presuming that God conferred righteousness without renovation of heart. He refutes this calumny, by pressing on... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Romans 6:11-14

Romans 6:11-14Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus.Death a dutyThe Bible speaks of three kinds of deaths.1. That which is a necessary event--the death of the body.2. That which is a moral crime--death in trespasses and sins.3. That which is a righteous obligation--death unto sin.This is a death which every man should die, though few men do so. It is a death which requires earnest individual effort, and involves the agonies of a... read more

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