Paul's letter to the Romans concerning faith and working righteousness.
A letter reminding christians the free gift of God unto righteousness.
Romans 6 - ASV
1. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Think and tell of the answer.
Shall we increase destruction when there is no hurt?
Shall we disobey to gain more good will, more gift?
2. God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?
Working evil, and sin is against the good intention God has for man.
We christians are supposed to have left sin, by being cut off from sin.
We do not belong to sin or in sin.
We ought to live free from sin, and free of sin.
3. Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
We have gone into Christ. We have joined His commonwealth. We are in unity with righteousness.
Christ represents the cutting off from unrighteousness, from sin.
He who belongs to Christ ought to continue in righteousness and stay away from sinning.
4. We were buried therefore with him through baptism unto 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.
All sin was made inactive, incapable, having buried.
We are as dead men in the world of sin, totally incapble of sin. We live opposite to sin.
Christ has excaped and left the bondage, the death, the poison of sin and death. Christ died no more. Christ lived a new life.
Being followers of Christ, we ought to do the same; dead to sin, and ressurected into 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;
There is the unity as one. Men do not just strive to return to Paradise as mere flesh and blood. Men become spiritual just as God is spirit. Those who are worthy to be with Him must be so in spirit and in truth.
The gospel is not just a matter of death, but resurrection also.
There is glory in life eternal.
Not just being with Him, but united with Him; a much closer interactive ethnic relationship. There is family warmth.
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;
Sin was paid for. Death will be left behind, done away.
Bonds with sin are broken.
7. for he that hath died is justified from sin.
We are justified by appearance and principle. We live a newness of life.
Dying with Christ to sin. Staying from sin that it no more affects/binds you.
Christians are already justified. There is no need for Purgatory. There is no after-death payment.
8. But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
If we follow Christ, we should follow Him to the utmost.
9. knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more hath dominion over him.
The new life has no death, knows no death. It is life incorruptable.
10. For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Sin caused His death. His death is related to sin.
His life is related to God. Our lives in Him is related to God.
11. Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.
Count yourselves as dead to sin.
In Christ Jesus. Not in the Madonna, Mary, or any other god/idol.
Paul preached no other god.
12. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:
Avoid what can be avoid.
Disobey the lusts thereof.
13. neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Do not work unrighteousness.
There is activity in faith, in life.
Christians should present themselves to God, as alive from the dead. We are for the use of God for righteousness. Good works are the results of obeying God.
14. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.
We are under grace. So no need for Purgatory. His grace is sufficient for us to be alive in Him.
15. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.
It is not the plan of God for us to keep sinning.
16. Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteouness?
You know. A reminder.
Pay attention to your acts.
17. But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;
Obedience is from the heart(mind and spirit).
18. and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.
Not by works; but made to be so. God is in charge.
Christians are being made free from sin. No need for Purgatory. No need to work for holiness, purity. We are already servants/slaves of righteousness.
One slave cannot serve 2 masters.
19. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness unto sanctification.
This is expressed as the reasoning of men; easy enough to understand. No spiritual trick or jargon.
Like with like.
20. For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.
Evil doers are not constrained/restricted by righteousness.
21. What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
Evil-doers are not ashamed of the things leading to death.
22. But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.
Christians are made free from sin. No personal effort.
Christians bear fruits and leading/carrying them to holiness. The treasures of life are not lost.
23. For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
There is a payment for working sin.
Sin does not work out a glorious future. Glorious future does not come from sin. Death does.
The free gift is not purgatory. Eternal life is not a wage of our works. It is a free gift, something freely given and is free.
Jesus Christ has become our Lord/Master. We are not slaves of sin anymore.
The free gift frees us from sin and death.
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