Romans 6:11
So let it be with you – regard yourselves as dead to sin, but as living for God, through union with Christ Jesus.
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In Context
12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies and compel you to obey its cravings.
Cross References
John 20:31but these have been recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God – and that, through your belief in his name, you may have life.
Romans 6:2Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, so how can we go on living in it?
Romans 6:23The wages of sin are death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through union with Christ Jesus, our Lord.
Romans 16:27to him, I say, the wise and only God, be ascribed, through Jesus Christ, all glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Galatians 2:19I, indeed, through Law became dead to Law, in order to live for God.
Philippians 1:11bearing a rich harvest of that righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to 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 →