Romans 6:11

In the same way you also must regard yourselves as dead in relation to sin, but as alive in relation to God, because you are in Christ Jesus.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

In Context

10Death has no longer any power over Him. For by the death which He died He became, once for all, dead in relation to sin; but by the life which He now lives He is alive in relation to God.

12Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies, causing you to be in subjection to their cravings;

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Cross References

John 20:31But these have been recorded in order that you may believe that He is the Christ, the Son of God, and that, through believing, you may have Life through His name.

Romans 6:2No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?

Romans 6:23For the wages paid by Sin are death; but God's free gift is the Life of the Ages bestowed upon us in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 16:27to God, the only wise, through Jesus Christ, even to Him be the glory through all the Ages! Amen.

Galatians 2:19for it is by the Law that I have died to the Law, in order that I may live to God.

Philippians 1:11being filled with these fruits of righteousness which come 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 →

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