Romans 6:1-23

Romans 6:1-3:

^6:1Therefore what will we say? Should we remain-on in the sin in order that grace may become more-and-more? ^.2May it not become! We the-people-who died to the sin, how may we yet live in it? ^.3Or do you not-know that as-many (of us) as were baptized into Christ Jesus, we were baptized into his death?

Paul continues: Following-on logically from what is written in chapter 5, what will we say (mindfully tell others)?

• Should we remain-on in the sin (persist, continue staying on within the effects of the sin; refer to Romans 5:12 and 21)
  • for the purpose and result that grace (what is freely bestowed without any merit on the recipient's part, unmerited favor)
    • would become more-and-more (more than it was previously, increase the amount)?

The answer:

• May it not become! May that not come to pass! May that not happen! The thought of such a thing being so repulsive to Paul is conveyed in his expression of may it not become or come into being that such a thing would occur at any time!

We are the people who died relative-to the sin…

• how would we still live (be alive, living) within the sphere of action of the sin?
  • The unwritten answer to this rhetorical question is that it is not possible; it is not available to live within something that we have died to! Paul is referring to the holy-person’s (Christian's) spiritual standing before God (not the "walk/behavior" category).

Or do you not-know (are you personally un-knowing, ignorant, unaware) that…

• as many/much of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus (directed to, with respect to Christ Jesus; all holy-people have been immersed, surrounded from outside into the inside of/with/in everything that he is today – the spiritual reality is that we have the spirit of Christ within us and so we have spiritually accomplished everything that Christ has himself accomplished),
  • we were baptized into his death (into everything that was involved and accomplished by his death)?
  • The unwritten answer to this rhetorical question should be, “We know it.”

[Reference: I Corinthians 12:12-14; Galatians 3:27; Ephesians 4:5; Colossians 2:20, 3:3; I Peter 4:1 and 2.]

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