Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Grace » Not to be abused
And why not say, as people abuse us for saying and charge us with saying, "Let us do evil that good may come out of it"? Such people will be condemned as they deserve!
Then what shall we conclude? Are we to continue to sin to increase the spread of mercy?
What follows, then? Are we to sin, because we live not under law but under mercy? Certainly not!
the Human nature of Christ » Was necessary to his mediatorial office
For since it was through a man that we have death, it is through a man also that we have the raising of the dead.
but when the proper time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, and made subject to law, to ransom those who were subject to law, so that we might receive adoption.
For there is but one God, and one intermediary between God and men??he man Christ Jesus,
And so he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might prove a compassionate high priest as well as one faithful in his service to God, in order to forgive the people's sins.
I use these familiar human terms because of the limitations of your nature. For just as you before gave up the parts of your bodies in slavery to vice and greater and greater license, you must now give them up in slavery to uprightness, which leads to consecration.
What follows, then? Are we to sin, because we live not under law but under mercy? Certainly not!
Servants » Who is the servant of sin
Jesus answered, "I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. Now a slave does not belong to a household permanently; but a son does.
What follows, then? Are we to sin, because we live not under law but under mercy? Certainly not! Do you not know that when you submit to being someone's slaves, and obeying him, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, whether your slavery is to sin, and leads to death, or is to obedience, and leads to uprightness? But, thank God! though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from your hearts to the standard of teaching that you received, read more.
and so you have been freed from sin, and made slaves of uprightness. I use these familiar human terms because of the limitations of your nature. For just as you before gave up the parts of your bodies in slavery to vice and greater and greater license, you must now give them up in slavery to uprightness, which leads to consecration. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free as far as uprightness was concerned.
and so you have been freed from sin, and made slaves of uprightness. I use these familiar human terms because of the limitations of your nature. For just as you before gave up the parts of your bodies in slavery to vice and greater and greater license, you must now give them up in slavery to uprightness, which leads to consecration. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free as far as uprightness was concerned.
Sin » Who is the servant of sin
Jesus answered, "I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. Now a slave does not belong to a household permanently; but a son does.
What follows, then? Are we to sin, because we live not under law but under mercy? Certainly not! Do you not know that when you submit to being someone's slaves, and obeying him, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, whether your slavery is to sin, and leads to death, or is to obedience, and leads to uprightness? But, thank God! though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from your hearts to the standard of teaching that you received, read more.
and so you have been freed from sin, and made slaves of uprightness. I use these familiar human terms because of the limitations of your nature. For just as you before gave up the parts of your bodies in slavery to vice and greater and greater license, you must now give them up in slavery to uprightness, which leads to consecration. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free as far as uprightness was concerned.
and so you have been freed from sin, and made slaves of uprightness. I use these familiar human terms because of the limitations of your nature. For just as you before gave up the parts of your bodies in slavery to vice and greater and greater license, you must now give them up in slavery to uprightness, which leads to consecration. For when you were slaves of sin, you were free as far as uprightness was concerned.