Romans 6:7

For he that is dead [to sin], is justified from sin.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

For he that is dead is freed from sin.

In Context

6witting this thing (or knowing this), that our old man is crucified together (with him), (so) that the body of sin be destroyed, (so) that we serve no more to sin.

8And if we be dead with Christ (or And if we have died with the Messiah), we believe that also we shall live together with him;

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Cross References

Romans 6:2God forbid. For how shall we that be dead to sin, live yet therein?

Romans 7:2For that woman that is under an husband, is bound to the law, while the husband liveth; but if her husband is dead, she is delivered [or she is unbound] from the law of the husband.

Romans 8:1Therefore now nothing of condem-nation is to them that be in Christ Jesus, which wander not after the flesh. (And so now there is no condemnation for those who be in the Messiah Jesus, who do not walk, or go, according to the flesh.)

1 Peter 4:1Therefore for Christ suffered in (the) flesh (or And so because the Messiah suffered in the flesh), be ye also armed by the same thinking; for he that suffered in (the) flesh ceased from 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 →

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