Romans 6:4

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Romans 6:4

AIMS IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE‘Newness of life.’ Romans 6:4 A new life springs from a new motive, goes by a new way on to a new end.From that singleness of aim and end, as soon as a man has it, three results immediately ensue. I. Having now one great, high object before him, gives a fullness and consistency to his character.—It is just what every man wants to make him really happy, or really useful, or really great; a definite intention—a scope, a purpose worthy of his being; and that... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 6:1-14

Reigning In Life Through Christ By Dying With Christ, And Rising With Him (6:1-14). The question is asked in Romans 6:1, ‘What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?’. This brings home the fact that what is now to follow does not just deal with the question of how men and women can be accounted righteous through Christ, but also with the question of how they can become actively righteous. It was necessary to make a reply to the calumny that Paul could be seen as... read more

Peter Pett

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 6:4

‘We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.’ Thus Spiritually as those who are ‘in Christ’ they were ‘buried with Him through baptism unto death’, dying and being buried with Him in Spiritual union with Him that they might also rise with Him. They have been united with Him in His burial so that they might experience His true death. That Christ ‘died and was... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 6:1-11

Romans 6:1-1 Kings : . Union with the Dying, Risen Christ. Romans 6:1 . The reference of Romans 5:20 to “ the law” gives the legalist critic his opportunity to challenge Paul’ s whole doctrine on its practical outcome; in his view, it is rank Antinomiansm: “ Are we to persist in sin, that grace may abound?” If to “ multiply sin” multiplies grace— then sin away! Romans 6:2-Numbers : . The suggestion revolts the Christian consciousness; the mocking query is countered: “ We who died to sin, how... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Romans 6:4

Therefore: q.d. Because we are thus dead with Christ, therefore, & c. We are buried with him; i.e. we have communion with him in his burial also, which represents a farther degree of the destruction of sin, by putting it, as it were, out of our sight, Genesis 23:4, and having no more to do with it. By baptism into death: he seems here to allude to the manner of baptizing in those warm Eastern countries, which was to dip or plunge the party baptized, and as it were to bury him for a while... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Romans 6:1-11

CRITICAL NOTESRomans 6:2.—Necessary connection between faith in Christ’s death and abhorrence of sin. Heathen writers speak of the wise and good as dead to sensualities and animal pleasures (Wordsworth).Romans 6:3. Baptised into His death.—In relation to His death—i.e., faith in it, acceptation, appropriation, and imitation of it. The relation symbolised by baptism is in its own nature moral and spiritual.Romans 6:4.—Baptism by immersion—and where that cannot be conveniently done, by... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 6:1-5

Romans 6:1-5 Free Grace and Sin. In this passage, under cover of a reply to a plausible objection to the doctrine of justification, we really enter upon the discussion of the bearing of gospel faith on moral character. I. To the objection, the plausible but hateful objection, "What then? Are we to persist in our sin just in order that (as you say) the grace of God may abound in its forgiveness?" St. Paul's reply is a very blunt and staggering one. It amounts to this: such an abuse of free grace... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 6:4

Romans 6:4 Freshness of Being. In everything which is really of God there is a singular freshness; it is always like that tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; there is a continual novelty. And yet some people speak of the sameness of a religious life! I. What is newness? It is not the creation of new matter. Creations in that sense are things of the far past. It is better than creation. The old goes to make the new. The old passions, the old bias,... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Romans 6:4-8

Romans 6:4-8 Christ's Resurrection an Image of our New Life. Our new life is like that of our risen Saviour I. In the manner of His resurrection. In order to appear to His disciples in that glorified form, which already bore in it the indications of the eternal and immortal glory, it was necessary that the Saviour should pass through the pains of death. It was not an easy transformation; it was necessary for Him, though not to see corruption, yet to have the shadow of death pass over Him; and... read more

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