Romans 6:4-8

From: Fragments Gathered Up

Romans 6:4‑8 • 1 min. read • grade level: 7

I apprehend the “shall” of Rom. 6:5⁵For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: (Romans 6:5) is not future but consequence. Verse 6 is corroborative of it, the result being the last words of verse 4. Verse 8 is consequence, but on to the future, and this, because there is power in his resurrection. (Ver 9.) But it is power of life, putting of course in a given place by resurrection, but not in simple standing as in Eph. 2:6⁶And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: (Ephesians 2:6). No doubt, this is connected with power, as in the end of Eph. 1, but it is not life as here working in us. In Rom. 6:7⁷For he that is dead is freed from sin. (Romans 6:7), it is not justified from “sins;” and, it is clear, a dead man cannot be accused of sin working in him: his state of death clears (justifies) him at once. In all this part of Romans, the apostle speaks of sin, not sins. When he speaks of offenses, the law is introduced.