Category Archives: Meditations by P.Wilhelm Löhe (Translation)

Löhe on Romans 6,22

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Wilhelm Weber

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. (Rom 6:22 NIV) The apostle St. Paul puts the then and … Continue reading →

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Löhe on Romans 6,22a

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Wilhelm Weber

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God (Rom 6:22 NIV) It is something most glorious if one can say that about somebody. It demonstrates too that the liberation of Romans from … Continue reading →

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Löhe on Romans 6,21

Posted on July 17, 2013 by Wilhelm Weber

What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! (Rom 6:21 NIV) St. Paul clarifies clearly what is past and what is present. The Christians were slaves of … Continue reading →

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Löhe on Romans 6,20

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Wilhelm Weber

When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness. (Rom 6:20 NIV) Nobody what’s to be a servant or slave. Everybody prefers freedom. Yet there is nobody really free and not in servitude. Or who … Continue reading →

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Löhe on Romans 6,19

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Wilhelm Weber

Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. (Rom 6:19 NIV) Let’s consider these words some more. Impurity … Continue reading →

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Löhe on Romans 6,19

Posted on July 14, 2013 by Wilhelm Weber

Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. (Rom 6:19 NIV) In apostolic times the entire population around … Continue reading →

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Löhe on Romans 6,11

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Wilhelm Weber

Count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. (Rom 6:11 NIV) Jesus lives. What he is living, he is living for God. The same holds true for us. After we have died together with Christ on … Continue reading →

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Löhe on Romans 6,8

Posted on July 12, 2013 by Wilhelm Weber

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. (Rom 6:8 NIV) It’s quite challenging to speak of our Christian community and fellowship with our head Jesus Christ, because quite often our congregations are … Continue reading →

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Löhe on Romans 6,7

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Wilhelm Weber

Anyone who has died has been freed from sin. (Rom 6:7 NIV) Whoever has died with Christ and stands in the communion and fellowship with his death thereby receives satisfaction and justification of all his sins. He is declared free … Continue reading →

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Löhe on Romans 6,6

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Wilhelm Weber

For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. (Rom 6:6 NIV) Our old self has been crucified … Continue reading →

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