Romans 6:7
because he who has died has been released from that sin.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
In Context
8Now since we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him,
Cross References
Romans 6:2Of course not! How can we who died to sin keep on living in it?
Romans 7:2For example, a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if the man should die, she is released from the law about the husband.
Romans 8:1Now then, there is no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit,
1 Peter 4:1Therefore, since Christ suffered on our behalf in flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mentality (for the one who has ‘suffered in flesh’ has been made to cease 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 →