Romans 6:7
for he that is dead is freed from sin.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
In Context
8Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;
Cross References
Romans 6:2It can not be. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?
Romans 7:2For the woman that has a husband, is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives: but if her husband die, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Romans 8:1There is now, therefore, no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 4:1Since, then, Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, do you also arm yourselves with the same determination; for he that has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
Matthew Henry on Romans 6:2-23
On Sanctification. ( a. d. 58.) 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness… Read the whole commentary →