Audio commentary on this verse

Note 7 at Rom. 6:15: Paul had started this sixth chapter with a similar question as to whether or not his teaching was encouraging people to sin (see note 1 at Rom. 6:1, p. 775). He spent the first thirteen verses of this chapter explaining that Christians don't sin because they are dead to sin (see note 3 at Rom. 6:2, p. 776 and note 6 at Rom. 6:4, p. 777). Then in verse fourteen, he brings up our deliverance from the law again which prompts this similar question. He then goes on through the rest of this chapter to explain that the second reason Christians don't sin is because it gives Satan an inroad into our lives (see note 8).