Romans 6 answers the objection raised in chapter 5.
If grace abounds where sin increases —
Should we sin more?
Paul’s answer: Absolutely not.
Key truths:
- Believers are united with Christ in His death and resurrection (6:3–5).
- The old self was crucified so sin would lose dominion (6:6).
- Death breaks sin’s legal claim (6:7).
- Christ died once for all; death no longer rules Him (6:9–10).
- Believers must “consider” themselves dead to sin (6:11).
- Sin is no longer master (6:14).
- Everyone serves a master — sin or obedience (6:16).
- Freedom from sin leads to righteousness and sanctification (6:18–22).
- The final contrast:
- Sin pays wages (death).
- God gives a gift (eternal life).
This chapter answers:
How should believers live?
As those transferred from slavery to freedom.
Grace does not excuse sin.
Grace changes masters.
Christ-Foreshadowing / Christ Lens
In Romans 6, Christ is:
- The Crucified One
• The Risen Lord
• The Breaker of bondage
• The Giver of eternal life
Where Adam enslaved,
Christ liberates.
Where sin paid wages,
Christ gives a gift.
Union with Christ is the key:
We are not reformed slaves —
We are transferred citizens.
Romans 6
Shall we continue in our sin
So grace may rise and overflow in?
By no means — hear the cry!
To sin we died — how live thereby?
Do you not know what this implies?
All baptized into Christ who dies
Were buried with Him in the grave,
So we might walk in life He gave.
If united in death with Him,
We rise where new beginnings brim.
Our old self crucified and torn,
So sin’s dominion not reborn.
No longer slaves to what we were —
The cross has signed our transfer.
For one who’s died is freed from claim;
Sin has lost its binding name.
Now if with Christ we died indeed,
We live with Him in risen seed.
Death no longer holds His reign —
He died once — won’t die again.
Count yourselves to sin as dead,
But alive to God instead.
Do not let sin command your frame,
Nor yield your body to its claim.
Present yourselves to God anew,
As living proof of mercy true.
Not under Law’s condemning rod,
But under grace — alive to God.
What then? Shall we sin because
We’re not bound under the Law’s clause?
By no means — you know this rule:
You serve the master you obey in full.
Once slaves to sin’s degrading chain,
Now freed through heart’s obedient gain.
You’ve been set free from sin’s demand
And made servants of God’s own hand.
When slaves to sin you walked unbound
From righteousness — no fruit was found.
What harvest did that pathway bring?
Shame and death in everything.
But now set free, made holy ground,
Eternal life the final crown.
For wages paid by sin are death —
But God’s free gift in every breath
Is life eternal, secured and won
In Christ our Lord — the Risen Son.
Freedom declared. Dominion changed.
A new allegiance now arranged.
