World English Bible · Under Rome
Romans 6
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What shall we say then? Shall we continue in , that may abound? May it never be! We who to , how could we live in it any longer? Or don't you know that all of us who were into Christ were into his ? We were buried therefore with him through into , that as Christ was through the of , so we also might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with him in the of his , we will also be part of his ; knowing this, that our old man was with him, that the body of might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to . For he who has has been freed from . But if we with Christ, we that we will also live with him, knowing that Christ, being , dies no more. no longer has over him! For the that he , he to one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to . Thus consider yourselves also to be to , but alive to in Christ our . Therefore don't let reign in your mortal body, that you should it in its lusts. Also, do not present your members to as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to as alive from , and your members as instruments of to . For will not over you, for you are not under law, but under . What then? Shall we because we are not under law but under ? May it never be! Don't you know that when you present yourselves as servants and someone, you are the servants of whomever you , whether of to , or of to ? But thanks be to that, whereas you were of , you became obedient from to that form of teaching to which you were . Being from , you became of . I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your ; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to for sanctification. For when you were servants of , you were free from . What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ? For the end of those things is . But now, being from and having become servants of , you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of . For the wages of is , but the free gift of is in Christ our .
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Every view at its strongest, with who holds it and what it has to answer for.
The world at this moment · Under Rome, 63 BC to AD 100 ›
Judea as a client kingdom and then a province. Roads, garrisons, taxes, crucifixion, and a common Greek language that let a message travel the empire faster than any before it.
- Rome
- The republic tears itself apart in civil war and comes out as an empire under Augustus. What follows is two centuries of relative peace across the whole Mediterranean, enforced by legions and paid for by taxes, with safe roads and safe sea lanes. Every one of Paul's journeys depends on that.
- Judea
- Governed first through Herod the Great, a client king of enormous ability and enormous brutality who rebuilds the temple into one of the wonders of the ancient world, then directly by Roman prefects. Crucifixion is the standard penalty for sedition and is used often and publicly.
- The wider world
- Greek is spoken from Spain to Syria, which means a letter written in Corinth can be read in Rome without translation. Jewish communities already exist in most major cities, which is where the first Christian preaching lands. Mystery religions, imperial cult, and philosophy all compete in the same marketplace.
- Further afield
- The Han dynasty rules China and trades silk westward along routes that touch the Roman world at second hand. In Britain the Roman conquest begins within a decade of the crucifixion.