The second objection to justification by faith is similar to the first  … “What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace?” Rom 6:15 (NASB) Paul responds once again with a definite ‘no’. He explains his answer with two illustrations. The first is about two types of slavery and the different outcome of each. A person is either a slave to sin or enslaved to a gracious Master, God.

The second illustration describes relationship to the Law and relationship to Christ in terms of marriage. Marriage to the Law means having to do things in order to be justified. Marriage to Christ means freely receiving by faith what He has already done. We must be released by ‘death’ from the Law in order to be united to Christ. This union produces a ”harvest of good deeds for God.”