{"id":339,"date":"2008-04-17T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1002things.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2022-03-17T08:54:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T14:54:28","slug":"romans-615-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"Romans 6:15-16"},"content":{"rendered":"

15\u00a0<\/sup>What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

16\u00a0<\/sup>Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one\u2019s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

In verse 15, Paul asks the same question as in verse 1<\/span><\/a>, but now he asks based on what he has just written in verses 2-14.<\/h3>\n

If we feel sin can be committed without risk because of grace, we turn grace into lasciviousness.<\/h3>\n

present (yield) \u2014 as in verse 13<\/span><\/a>, to put a thing at the disposal of another<\/h3>\n

obey \u2014 should be obedience, not a verb. The first usage of obedience is an effect, not personified. The second usage is personified as the alternative master. Any decision to sin or acquiescence to sin makes sin our master. Matthew 6:24<\/span><\/a> \u2014 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

death (here) = not eternal death but death of the Christian’s experience.<\/h3>\n

Romans 8:6<\/span><\/a> \u2014 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

Galatians 6:8<\/span><\/a> \u2014 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

We should observe the two lines of truth which run throughout the chapter with regard to the believer’s deliverance from sin:<\/span><\/h3>\n