Romanschapter 6

23 verses · ASV

This chapter sends 443 cross-references outward and receives 447 — heaviest partner: Romans.

Chapter summary

Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid. The believer has died with Christ in baptism and is raised to walk in newness of life. Sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under the law but under grace. Paul commands: yield your members as servants of righteousness. The wages of sin is death; the gift of God, eternal life. Calvin calls this chapter the answer to every antinomian misreading of justification — union with Christ ends sin's reign.

Drafted from Matthew Henry, Calvin, Gill, Clarke, JFB, and Barnes.

Context

Epistle · Paul — see the Romans overview for the book's full setting.

1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

2 God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?

3 Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

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.

5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection;

6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;

7 for he that hath died is justified from sin.

8 But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

9 knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more hath dominion over him.