1: What shall we say then Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound
2: God forbid How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein 3:
Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized
into his death 4: Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death
that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even
so we also should walk in newness of life 5: For if we have been planted
together in the likeness of his death we shall be also in the likeness of his
resurrection[1]
6: Knowing this that our old being is crucified with him that the body
of sin might be destroyed that from now on we should not serve sin 7:
For they that are dead are freed from sin 8: Now if we be dead with
Christ we believe that we shall also live
with him[2]
9: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more Death has
no more dominion over him 10: For in that he died he died to sin once
but in that he lives he lives to God[3]
11: Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin but
alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord 12: Let not sin therefore
reign in your mortal body that you should obey it in the lusts thereof 13:
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin but
yield yourselves to God as those that are alive from the dead[4]
and your members as instruments of righteousness to God 14: For sin
shall not have dominion over you for you are not
under the law but under grace 15: What then shall we sin because
we are not under the law but under grace God forbid 16: Know ye not that
to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey his servants you are to whom you
obey whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness[5] 17:
But God be thanked that you were the servants of sin but you have obeyed from
the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you 18: Being then
made free from sin you became the servants of righteousness 19: I speak
after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh for as you have
yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto [even more]
iniquity even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness
20: For when you were the servants of sin you were free from
righteousness 21: What fruit had you then in those things whereof you
are now ashamed for the end of those things is death 22: But now being
made free from sin and become servants to God you have your fruit to holiness
and the end everlasting life 23: For the wages of sin[6] is
death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord
[1] During baptism by immersion, no air
enters the nasal passages or lungs (just as in death), and the water completely
closes around the body, sealing it in like a tomb. Rising from the water, and again
drawing air into the lungs, is figurative of Christ’s resurrection from the
dead and the Christian’s entrance into a new life. The old is dead, and the new
is re-born.
[2] Paul preached a physical resurrection
from the dead, for Christ and for all believers.
[3] The fact of Jesus’ humanity (and his
submission to God as a human) in no way diminishes the fact that he is Jehovah
in the flesh. There is no hierarchy within the Godhead. In Jesus, the man,
dwells all the fullness of the Godhead in physical form Colossians
2:9.
[4] Jesus referred to those who were
separated from God through unbelief as “dead” when he said, “Let the dead bury
their dead.” Paul defined death, not as annihilation or loss of consciousness,
but as being destroyed “from” something 2 Thessalonians 1:9. Scripturally,
death is defined as being separated from the presence and power of God. That is
what happened to Jesus, when he bore our sins on the cross and he cried out, “Father,
Father why have you forsaken me!?” The
Bible says God cannot look on sin, and for a brief moment, Jesus became sin.
[5] Just as grace is progressive, leading not
only to eternal life, but to transformation of our persons from glory to more
glory (the Bible says we can grow in grace), sin is also progressive and, if
not stemmed, always leads to more sin. The scriptures explicitly state the
dangers of sin include the possibility of falling away and falling from grace Hebrews
10, Galatians 5 .
[6] Death is always earned, but eternal
life is given, through faith in the
risen Son of God.
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