Romans 6:7
for the one having died has been made free from sin.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
In Context
8But if we died along with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him:
Cross References
Romans 6:2It could not be so. How shall we, who are dead unto sin, live any longer in it?
Romans 7:2For a woman who is under her husband has been given to her husband by the law so long as he lives; but if the husband may die, she is free from the law of the husband.
Romans 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 4:1Therefore Christ having suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same mind: because the one having suffered in carnality 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 →