Romans 6:7
for he that is thus dead with Christ, is delivered from sin.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
In Context
8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him:
Cross References
Romans 6:2God forbid! how shall we, who are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Romans 7:2For a married woman is bound by the law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband die, she is discharged from the law of her husband.
Romans 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit.
1 Peter 4:1Seeing therefore Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same thought, that he, who hath mortified the flesh, hath 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 →