Romans 6:7
for he that is dead to it, is emancipated from sin.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
In Context
8If then we are dead with Messiah, let us believe that we shall live with the same Messiah.
Cross References
Romans 6:2Far be it: for if we are persons that have died to sin, how can we again live in it?
Romans 7:2Just as a woman, by the law, is bound to her husband, as long as he is alive: but if her husband should die, she is freed from the law of her husband.
Romans 8:1There is therefore no condemnation, to them who, in Jesus Messiah, walk not after the flesh.
1 Peter 4:1If then the Messiah hath suffered for you in the flesh, do ye also arm yourselves with the same mind: for every one that is dead 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 →