Romans 6:7
For he that is dead is justified from sin.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
In Context
8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ:
Cross References
Romans 6:2God forbid. For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?
Romans 7:2For the woman that hath an husband, whilst her husband liveth is bound to the law. But if her husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
Romans 8:1There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh.
1 Peter 4:1Christ therefore having suffered in the flesh, be you also armed with the same thought: for he that hath suffered in the flesh, hath ceased from sins:
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 →