Romans 6:7
For he who has died has been justified from sin.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
In Context
8But if we died with Christ, we believe that we also shall live together with Him,
Cross References
Romans 6:2By no means! We died to sin—how shall we live any longer in it?
Romans 7:2For the woman who is under a man has been bound by law to the living husband. But if the husband should die, she is released from the law of the husband.
Romans 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
1 Peter 4:1Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same mind, because he who 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 →