Romans 6

Rom 5:20-21 NASB The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, (21) so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Rom 6:1-9 NASB What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? (2) May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? (3) Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have beenbaptized into His death? (4) Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. (5) For if we have become united withHim in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, (6) knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; (7) for he who has died is freed from sin. (8) Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, (9) knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.

  • In what ways can we live continuing in sin and hoping that grace may increase? (Romans 3:8)
  • baptized: (Romans 6:5) (Jeremiah 2:22; men attempting to wash themselves clean – unsatisfactory. Psalm 51:7; God purifying – kabas).
  • What does Baptized into mean… (1Cor 10:2)
  • Who died, When, and How?
  • What have you died to?
  • Where were you placed after death, how?
  • What happened next?
  • Who is living and what are they living to? (Gal 5:13)
  • If you are dead to sin, what power does sin have over you? What can a dead person do?
  • What happened in Jesus life after He died to sin? How about you and your life? (Col 3:1-3)

Rom 6:10-14 NASB For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. (11) Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. (12) Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, (13) and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. (14) For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

  • How is sin not a mater over us? Is that how it feels in our lives?
  • Verse 12-13 – “Do not let…” and “do not go on…” What does this mean to you?
  • If we are dead to sin, then how can it reign in us?
  • We know that Jesus died for us, but do we know that He is living for us, too – and we for Him? (Rom 14:7-9, Gal 2:19-21)

Rom 6:15-23 NASB What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! (16) Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness? (17) But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, (18) and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. (19) I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness, resulting in further lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, resulting in sanctification. (20) For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. (21) Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the outcome of those things is death. (22) But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you derive your benefit, resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life. (23) For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • What does it mean when you present yourself as slaves for obedience?
  • What difference is there whether you present yourselves as slaves to sin or to righteousness?
  • What part of you became obedient (verse 17)? Where does that leave the rest of your flesh?
  • If you can remember, before you gave your heart to Jesus – what did you think of righteousness?
  • According to verse 20, we were free from righteousness and slaves of sin. Is there life in this? Looking back, what benefit was that life giving you? Did you see it as empty at the time?
  • Now, you are slaves to God. What benefit is there in this (Verse 22)?
  • What’s the difference between wages and a free gift (Verse 23) and how does that apply to your experience in life?

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Gal 5:13 NASB For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

1Co 10:1-4 NASB For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea; (2) and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; (3) and all ate the same spiritual food; (4) and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.

Col 3:1-3 NASB Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. (2) Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. (3) For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Gal 2:19-21 NASB “For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God. (20) “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. (21) “I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly.”

Rom 7:19 NASB For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.

Rom 14:7-9 NASB For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself; (8) for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. (9) For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.