What does Paul invite the saints in Rome to consider?...

The results, the fruit, of the behaviours they had practiced as unsaved people.

It seems likely that the believers in Rome, and in other countries as well, were having the same problems we see today.

The saints did not understand fully that forgiveness is only one-half of the atonement, the Divine reconciliation.

The other half of the atonement is the release from the power of sin, the transformation of behaviour that takes place in us as each day we are brought further into the death of Christ and further into His eternal, incorruptible resurrection life—life that expresses itself in stern obedience to the Father.

Divine Life cannot possibly express itself in slavery to sin and Satan.

Whoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him (I John 3:15).