Romans 6:11
And so, you should consider yourselves to be certainly dead to sin, and to be living for God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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10For in as much as he died for sin, he died once. But in as much as he lives, he lives for God.
12Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body, such that you would obey its desires.
Cross References
John 20:31But these things have been written, so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that, in believing, you may have life in his name.
Romans 6:2Let it not be so! For how can we who have died to sin still live in sin?
Romans 6:23For the wages of sin is death. But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 16:27to God, who alone is wise, through Jesus Christ, to him be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Galatians 2:19For through the law, I have become dead to the law, so that I may live for God. I have been nailed to the cross with Christ.
Philippians 1:11filled with the fruit of justice, through Jesus Christ, in the glory and praise of God.
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 →