Romans 6:19-20 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh… Standing altogether outside it, having no relation to it, destitute of it, entirely unaffected by it; strangers therefore to its happy and gainful service. Possessing a freedom which is a bane and a bondage. A planet's freedom from the law which preserves it in its orbit; a child's freedom from the restraints of a happy home. This freedom pleases the flesh, but ruins the man; it is not mercifully given, but madly taken; it is Satan's miserable choice, "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." Note the latent irony of the text; "Ye were free"; but what kind of freedom? A freedom akin to that of hell. Freedom from righteousness a man's greatest misery; freedom in righteousness his greatest mercy. (T. Robinson, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. |
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