8. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace. things whereof ye are now ashamed" [LUTHER, THOLUCK, DE WETTE, PHILIPPI, ALFORD, &c.], seems unnatural and uncalled for. The new covenant made with Him, for those whom He has redeemed, and which is ratified with His blood, is immutable and irreversible. Romans 6:14 (NLT) There are too many prohibitions in your faith. Because baptized people have a new life (verse4), and Satan is no longer their master, Paul again said that sin does not have dominion over us. might be destroyed--(in Christ's death)--to the end. Certainly, sin shouldn't have power over you because you're not controlled by laws, but by God's favor. Understand the meaning of Romans 6:14 using all available Bible versions and commentary. 12-14 That means you must not give sin a vote in the way you conduct your lives. Romans 6:14 NASB Romans 6:14 KJV Romans 6:14 Bible Apps Romans 6:14 Biblia Paralela Romans 6:14 Chinese Bible Romans 6:14 French Bible Romans 6:14 German Bible Alphabetical: are be because but For grace law master not over shall sin under you your NT Letters: Romans 6:14 For sin will not have dominion over (Rom. So that sin shall have no dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace. But under grace; a gracious dispensation, under which men are justified, not by perfect obedience, but by faith in Christ, who died to redeem them from the curse of the law, being made a curse for them. Shall we sin against so much goodness, and such love? for the end of those things is death--What permanent advantage, and what abiding satisfaction, have those things yielded? but in that he liveth, he liveth unto--in obedience to the claims of God. (See the excellent remarks of Calvin here.). Shall not have dominion - Shall not reign, Romans 5:12; Romans 6:6. Dr. Grant, 1. Romans 6:14 (NKJV) This is the reason for the previous exhortation to “present” or yield ourselves to God.
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The Apostle states it himself, and proceeds to a final refutation of it.
(1) The apostle does not affirm that Christians are not bound to obey the moral law. They "have their fruit" unto this, that is, all going towards this blessed result. For Sin shall not have dominion over you--as the slaves of a tyrant lord. Those under the epoch of grace no longer owe allegiance to the epoch of the law.
Read Introduction to Romans 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.. The next for gives the reason why sin shall not have dominion over them. Those who seem to have no desire for loving obedience to God typically quote Romans 6:14 alone and never verse 15 which informs us that being under grace is not a license to continue in sin. The wilderness is law-land, the law actually thundering forth from Sinai in the wilderness, and given to people who were in covenant relation with God and amenable to His law, yet possessed of inbred sin antagonizing the law, and destined to die verifying the penalty of the violated law. After all, you're not living under that old tyranny any longer. They are dead to the guilt of sin, and therefore its power shall no more predominate in them. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. We are not under a legal dispensation, requiring personal conformity to the law, and entire freedom from sin, past and present, as the condition of our acceptance; but we are under a gracious dispensation, according to which God dispenses pardon freely, and accepts the sinner as a sinner, for Christ's sake, without works or merit of his own. Mere philological criticism will do nothing to help us here. of But the whole body of sin, whatever is not according to the holy law of God, must be done away, so that the believer may no more be the slave of sin, but live to God, and find happiness in his service. Christians are no longer under the era dominated by Adam or the Mosaic law but under the epoch of grace. (2) The fundamental principle of Gospel obedience is as original as it is divinely rational; that "we are set free from the law in order to keep it, and are brought graciously under servitude to the law in order to be free" ( Romans 6:14 Romans 6:15 Romans 6:18 ). But under grace emancipation is offered and freedom may be secured. We should yield ourselves to God, for sin shall not have dominion, etc. The second “for” shows the reason why the lordship of sin is over. The apostle's view in this is, to affect the saints with their present privilege, and to engage them in a cheerful conflict with sin, and to stir up in them an abhorrence of living in it. It continues to help me in my understanding of Romans. God has redeemed us, not by the Law but by grace. For ye are not vnder the lawe but vnder grace. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under the law, but under grace. He had exhorted them to devote all their faculties to the service of righteousness; but as they carry about them the relics of the flesh, they cannot do otherwise than walk somewhat lamely.
Throw yourselves wholeheartedly and full-time—remember, you’ve been raised from the dead!—into God’s way of doing things. Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. is freed--"hath been set free." Because here is another message … Continue reading "Commentary on Romans 6:1-14" For we are not under law - We who are Christians are not subject to that law where sin is excited, and where it rages unsubdued. And just as the woman with the issue of blood got virtue out of Christ by simply touching Him, so the essence of baptism seems to lie in the simple contact of the element with the body, symbolizing living contact with Christ crucified; the mode and extent of suffusion being indifferent and variable with climate and circumstances).
Not only is this grace manifested to them, but it operates within them. All in the Roman culture knew that the slave was to serve his master, not somebody else's master.
Law has no answer for the power of sin. There is no cause in man that causes God to give His grace.
Sin must not rule. He sends forth the Spirit of grace into the hearts of all who belong to the election of grace, whom God hath from the beginning chosen to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth; and the word of God worketh effectually in all who believe, 1 Thessalonians 2:13. So that, as when they were "under the law," Sin could not but have dominion over them, so now that they are "under grace," Sin cannot but be subdued under them. because we are not under the law, but under grace.
. that henceforth we should not serve sin--"be in bondage to sin.". What many want is freedom from religion.