Romans 6:7
For he who is dead is set free from sin.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
In Context
8If then we are dead with the Meshiha, we believe that with him, with the Meshiha, we shall live:
Cross References
Romans 6:2Not so. For how shall they who are dead to sin live yet in it?
Romans 7:2as a woman who is bound in law to her husband as long as he liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is freed from the law of her husband.
Romans 8:1Hence, there is no condemnation to them who do not walk according to the flesh, in Jeshu Meshiha.
1 Peter 4:1If then the Meshiha hath suffered for you in the flesh, be you also armed in it with the same mind; for every one who dieth in his body hath ceased from all 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 →