<p>6:14- see on Rom. 6:12.</p><p><i>For sin shall not have dominion over you</i>- Yet we still sin. But Paul is again talking about our changed status- sin is not now our Lord, our master; instead, Jesus is.&nbsp;<em>Kurieuo</em>&nbsp;(&ldquo;have dominion&rdquo;) is clearly intended to contrast with&nbsp;<em>Kurios</em>, the usual Greek word translated &ldquo;Lord&rdquo; with reference to the Lord Jesus. See on Rom. 6:9. The Lord Jesus rose again&nbsp;<em>so that</em>&nbsp;He might be our Lord, s.w. &ldquo;dominion&rdquo;, over us His people (Rom. 14:9). &ldquo;Shall not&rdquo; can be translated as &ldquo;Sin will not have dominion&rdquo; (ESV)- so that it&rsquo;s not a demand that we stop allowing sin to dominate, but rather an exaltation that the &ldquo;sin&rdquo; sphere of things will not in the end have dominion in our lives, because we are in Christ.</p><p><em>For you are not under law, but under grace</em>- This would&rsquo;ve been more radical to Jewish readers and listeners than we may appreciate; for Judaism&rsquo;s big issue has always been that the Law is required in order to curb or restrain sin, and that societies without the Law are more sinful than those influenced by it. But here Paul is saying that if we forget about the Jewish Law and live as believers justified by pure grace, this will have more practical power in delivering a man from sin&rsquo;s dominion than any attempt at obedience to a legal code. &ldquo;Under&rdquo; was appropriate to slaves &lsquo;under&rsquo; a master. We are &lsquo;under&rsquo; grace as our master rather than law. The strength of sin is the law (1 Cor. 15:56); if the law isn&rsquo;t our master, then sin likewise isn&rsquo;t our master, and therefore sin will not ultimately dominate us.</p>