For if we have become united with him by the likeness of his death (ε γαρ συμφυτο γεγοναμεν τω ομοιωματ του θανατου αυτου). Condit…

For if we have been planted together. The word here used (sumfutoi) does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament. It properly me…

If we have been planted together.—“If (as surely as) we have grown into—become conjoined with.” The metaphor is taken fro…

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: knowing this, that our…

In v.5 we encounter a problem concerning resurrection. Is Paul referring to the future bodily resurrection of the saints? Many expositors think so,…

For if we have been ingrafted, etc. He strengthens in plainer words the argument he has already stated. The analogy he mentions n…

For if we have been planted together
This is not to be understood of an implantation of Jews and Gentiles together i…

Baptism teaches the nece ity of dying to sin, and being, so to speak, buried from all ungodly and unholy pursuits, and of rising to walk with God i…

1. After showing that it is through Christ’s grace that we are freed from the sin of our first parent and from the sin that abounded because…