Free in regard of righteousness (ελευθερο τη δικαιοσυνη). Ye wore no collar of righteousness, but freely did as ye pleased. They w…

Ye were free from righteousness. That is, in your former state, you were not at all under the influence of righteousness. You were entirel…

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to ini…

Reviewing his own remarks, Paul grants that he has spoken “in human terms” (v.19). This is a kind of apology for having described the Christian lif…

For when you were, etc. He still repeats the difference, which he had previously mentioned, between the yoke of righteousness and…

For when ye were the servants of sin
This is an argument used, or a reason given, why regenerate persons should be d…

Every man is the servant of the master to whose commands he yields himself; whether it is the sinful dispositions of his heart, in actions which le…

1. After showing with a reason based on God’s grace that we should not continue in sin but should serve God, the Apostle shows the same thin…