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The Lexham Context Commentary: New Testament surveys each book of the New Testament at several levels—Book, Division, Section, Pericope, Paragraph, and Unit—providing contextually appropriate commentary on each level. The reader of the commentary can easily ascertain the contextual importance of any larger section, or pericope, or even a particular verse of Scripture.

(6:15–18) Verses 15–18 present the second objection, along with Paul’s counterquestion and its rationale. Believers are not free to sin because they have been set free from sin, so that they now serve righteousness. 6:15 Paul raises the second objection: are believers free to sin because they are under grace rather than Law? Absolutely not!. 6:16 Paul’s first counterquestion uses the analogy of slavery: Does his audience not realize that they are free only to choose which lord to
Romans 6:15–18