“For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.”
For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace. — The κυριότης (kyriotes, "dominion") of sin is definitively broken; being ὑπὸ χάριν (hypo charin, "under grace") rather than ὑπὸ νόμον (hypo nomon, "under law") is the altered power structure. The law reveals sin but does not liberate from it; grace enslaves the believer to God. This pivots toward the extended Romans 7 discussion of law's function.
Church Fathers on Romans 6:14
“For sin shall no more have dominion over you; for you are not under the Law, but under grace.” If then sin has no more dominion over us, why does he lay so great a charge upon them as he does in the words, “Let not sin reign in your mortal body,” and, “yield not ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin?” What does that here said mean then? He is sowing a kind of seed in this statement, which he means to develop afterwards, and to cultivate in a powerful…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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