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Romans — Chapter 6

Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

"So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus."

— Rom 6:11

Romans 6 answers the antinomian objection with the doctrine of death and resurrection with Christ in baptism, and the transfer from slavery to sin to slavery to righteousness.

💀 Dead with Christ in Baptism (6:1-14)

Rom 6:1-4
"What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?"
The answer to the antinomian objection is ontological: the believer is dead to sin. Baptism symbolizes and seals union with Christ in death and resurrection. The 'newness of life' (kainoteti zoes) is not a possibility — it is a reality to be lived.
Rom 6:11
"So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus."
Logizesthe — consider, count as reality: Paul does not say 'become dead' but 'consider yourselves dead' — death to sin is already a reality in Christ; the imperative is to appropriate it by faith.

⚡ Slaves of Righteousness (6:15-23)

Rom 6:22-23
"But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
The final contrast: sin pays (opsonia — military wages) with death; God gives (charisma — free gift) eternal life. Christian freedom is not autonomy — it is a change of master.