B.
Identification with Christ
6:1-23
1.
Identified
vv. 1-5
Rom. 6
:1
6:1
What then shall we say?
aShould we continue in sin that
bgrace may abound?
Rom. 6
:2
6:2
Absolutely not! We who have
adied to sin, how shall we still live in it?
Rom. 6
:3
6:3
Or are you ignorant that all of us who have been
1abaptized into
2Christ Jesus have been
1baptized into
3His death?
Rom. 6
:4
6:4
We have been
1aburied therefore with Him through
2baptism into His death, in order that just as Christ was
braised from the dead through the
3cglory of the Father, so also we might
4walk in
dnewness of
elife.
Rom. 6
:5
6:5
For if we have
1grown together with
Him in the
2likeness of His death, indeed we will also be
3in the 2likeness of His resurrection,
2.
Knowing
vv. 6-10
Rom. 6
:6
6:6
1Knowing this, that our
2old man has been
3acrucified with
Him in order that the
4bbody of sin might be
5annulled, that we should no longer serve sin as slaves;
Rom. 6
:7
6:7
For he who has died is justified from
1sin.
Rom. 6
:8
6:8
Now if we have
adied with Christ, we believe that we will also
blive 1with Him,
Rom. 6
:9
6:9
Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead,
adies 1no more; death lords it over Him no more.
Rom. 6
:10
6:10
For the death which He died, He died to sin once for all; but
the life which He lives, He lives to God.
3.
Reckoning
v.11
Rom. 6
:11
6:11
So also you,
1reckon yourselves to be
adead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.
4.
Presenting
vv. 12-23
Rom. 6
:12
6:12
1Do not let
asin therefore reign in your mortal body so that you obey
2the body's
blusts;
Rom. 6
:13
6:13
Neither apresent your
bmembers as
cweapons of unrighteousness to sin, but
1present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as
2weapons of righteousness to God.
Rom. 6
:14
6:14
For asin will not
1lord it over you,
2for you are
3not under the law but under
bgrace.
Rom. 6
:15
6:15
What then?
aShould we sin, because we are not under the law but under grace? Absolutely not!
Rom. 6
:16
6:16
Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves as slaves for obedience,
his slaves you are whom you obey, whether of sin
1unto death or of obedience
1unto righteousness?
Rom. 6
:17
6:17
But thanks be to God that though you were
aslaves of sin, you have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which you were delivered.
Rom. 6
:18
6:18
And having been
1afreed from sin, you were enslaved to righteousness.
Rom. 6
:19
6:19
I speak in human
terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to uncleanness and lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now
apresent your members as slaves to righteousness
1unto 2bsanctification.
Rom. 6
:20
6:20
For when you were
aslaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.
Rom. 6
:21
6:21
What fruit then did you have at that time? Things of which you are now ashamed, for the end of those things is death.
Rom. 6
:22
6:22
But now, having been
afreed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your fruit unto
1bsanctification, and the end,
ceternal 2life.
Rom. 6
:23
6:23
For the
1wages of sin is
2adeath, but the gift of God is
3beternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
