I think I have covered this topic extensively. Why did I do that? – because Paul did it. That is where his emphasis is. Let’s learn to emphasise what Bible emphasises. Paul mentions death and sin 8 or 9 times in the early verses of …
Bible Gem 183 – A Final Word on Being “Dead to Sin” (Rom 6:10)
Bible Gem 182 – Offer Yourselves (Rom 6:13-14)
The second is the verb παριστανετε from παρίστημι, [paristēmi] παριστάνω [paristanō] meaning to stand beside, that is, (transitively) to exhibit, proffer, recommend, substantiate; or (intransitively) to be at hand (or ready), aid: – assist, bring before, command, commend, give presently, present, prove, provide, shew, stand …
Bible Gem 181 – Reckon / Count / Consider (Rom 6:6-14)
Well how did you get on? What did you find in your search for the links to Knowing this . . . knowing that? Did you see that there are two active main verbs that connect to “knowing”. The first is λογίζεσθε from λογίζομαι [logizomai] …
Bible Gem 180 – Knowing this; Knowing that (Rom 6:6,9)
Augustine was sitting in a garden when he heard a boy saying “tolle legi” – “take up and read”. The scroll of Romans was nearby and so he read and the light dawned. Some time afterward, a woman he had lived with saw him and …
Bible Gem 179 – Baptised into His Death (Rom 6:3-4)
Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptised into union with Christ Jesus were baptised into his death? Therefore, through baptism we were buried with him into his death so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father’s …
Bible Gem 178 – Let’s Sin All the More! (Rom 6:1-8)
Let’s just spend another day on this thought of grace abounding and the response from some, “let’s sin all the more”. Paul’s response is strong. He has brought this matter up twice now. Here in 6:1, but we first encountered it in 3:5. Paul’s response …
Bible Gem 177 – Don’t let the Chapter Breaks Fool You (Rom 5//6)
You know I have said it before but it is worth saying again. I have been taught that repetition is a good way of emphasising your point. It is certainly the way the Hebrews and the Greeks did it. So just as Paul uses these …
Bible Gem 176 – Cheap Grace? Hardly (Rom 5:20-6:1)
Now the law crept in so that the offense would increase. But where sin increased, grace increased even more, so that, just as sin ruled by bringing death, so also grace might rule by bringing justification that results in eternal life through Jesus Christ our …
Bible Gem 175 – . . . So the Offence would Increase (Rom 5:20)
Now the law crept in so that the offence would increase. But where sin increased, grace increased even more, so that, just as sin ruled by bringing death, so also grace might rule by bringing justification that results in eternal life through Jesus Christ our …
Bible Gem 174 – Following Paul’s Thought (Rom 5:12-19)
We need to look at the passage again carefully in order to understand it. Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to everyone, because all have sinned. Romans 5:12 Following this verse there is a …