Romans 6:4

Romans 6:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
• English Standard Version (ESV)We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Context of Romans 6:4

2No! Certainly we should not do that! Sin does not rule our lives any longer. That old life is dead! So it is not right that we should continue to do wrong things. 3Remember what your baptism shows: When they baptized you, it shows that you are united with Christ Jesus. It also shows that, because Christ died, your old life also died. Your baptism shows that they buried you, just like they buried Christ after his death. It is like you died with him and they buried you with him. Because of that, God will also raise us, just as he raised Christ from death. God, the Father, is so great and powerful that he raised Christ to a new life. That means that we also can live our lives in a new way. 5We have become united with Christ, and we have died like he died. Because of that, we will also be united with him in his new life. Just like Christ rose, we also will rise to a new life. 6We know that God has caused our old nature to die with Christ on the cross. This happened so that God could make us free from the power of sin in our lives. We are no longer like slaves who have sin as their master.

Romans 6:4 word by word

συνετάφημεν οὖν αὐτῷ διὰ τοῦ βαπτίσματος εἰς τὸν θάνατον, ἵνα ὥσπερ ἠγέρθη Χριστὸς ἐκ νεκρῶν διὰ τῆς δόξης τοῦ πατρός, οὕτως καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐν καινότητι ζωῆς περιπατήσωμεν.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thereforeοὖνoun · therefore/thenG3767
• we are buried withσυνθάπτωsunthaptō · be buried withG4916
• himαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• byδιάdia · through/because ofG1223
• baptismὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• baptismβάπτισμαbaptisma · baptismG908
• intoεἰςeis · towardG1519
• deathθάνατοςthanatos · deathG2288
• thatἵναhina · in order that/toG2443
• like asὥσπερhōsper · just asG5618
• ChristΧριστόςChristos · ChristG5547
• was raised upἐγείρωegeirō · to ariseG1453
• fromἐκek ex · out fromG1537
• the deadνεκρόςnekros · deadG3498
• the gloryδόξαdoxa · gloryG1391
• of the Fatherπατήρpatēr · fatherG3962
• even soοὕτωςhoutō · thus(-ly)G3779
• weἐγώegō · I/weG1473
• alsoκαίkai · andG2532
• should walkπεριπατέωperipateō · to walkG4043
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• newnessκαινότηςkainotēs · newnessG2538
• of lifeζωήzōē · lifeG2222

Cross-references for Romans 6:4

• Romans 6:3Remember what your baptism shows: When they baptized you, it shows that you are united with Christ Jesus. It also shows that, because Christ died, your old life also died.
• Colossians 2:12When they baptized you, it was like God buried you with Christ. And God also raised you to a new life with Christ. You believed that God has great power to do that. You believed that God raised Jesus to life after he died. Because you believed, God raised you to have a new life.
• Colossians 3:1God has raised you with Christ to a new life. So you should want more and more the things that belong to heaven. That is where Christ is now. He sits there at God's right side.
• 1 Peter 3:21That shows how God now saves you. It is like a picture of baptism. The water of baptism does not wash dirt from a person's body. Instead, it shows that a person has decided to obey God. He is choosing to do what is right. That saves you, because Jesus Christ became alive again after his death.
• Romans 6:9God raised Christ, so that he became alive again after his death. Because of that, we know that he will never die again. Death has no authority over him any more.
• Romans 8:11God raised Jesus, to make him alive again after his death. Now God's Spirit lives in you. So God, who raised Christ from death, will also cause your human bodies to live again. He will do that by his Spirit who lives in you.
• 1 Corinthians 6:14God raised the Lord Jesus after he died. And God will use his power to make us alive again too.
• 2 Corinthians 13:4People killed Christ on the cross as a weak person. But he now lives by God's power. We are also weak as we serve Christ, like he was weak. But we live, because he now lives. So, when we come to you, we will show God's power among you.
• Ephesians 1:19You will also know how very powerful God is. He uses that power to help us now, as we trust in Christ. God's power is greater than anything we could ever know.
• Ephesians 2:5Because of our sins, we were dead in our spirits. But God gave us a new life, because we are united with Christ. Yes, God has saved you because he is so kind.
• Matthew 28:2At that moment, the ground moved about very strongly. One of the Lord God's angels came from heaven. He went to the rock. He rolled the big stone away from the hole and then he sat on top of it.
• John 2:11Jesus did this first miracle at Cana, in Galilee. In this way, Jesus showed how great and powerful he was. And his disciples believed in him.
• John 11:40Jesus said to her, ‘I told you already that you must believe in me. Then you will see how great and how powerful God is.’
• Colossians 1:11God rules from heaven with great power. We pray that he will make you strong with every kind of strength. Then, when troubles come, you can still be patient and strong.
• Romans 6:19It is difficult for you to understand these things, because you are still weak. So I am using a human picture of slaves to help you to understand better. At one time, you agreed to serve bad things as your master. You let your body do wrong and disgusting things. You continued to do more and more bad things. So now, you must use your body to serve what is right and good. Then you will do more and more good things which show that you belong to God.
• Romans 7:6But now we have become free from the authority of the law. It is as if we have died. So those rules no longer control us. We do not still try to obey rules that someone has written down. That is the old way. Instead, we serve God in a new way. God's Spirit helps us to please him.

Commentaries on Romans 6:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4We are buried with him by baptism into death - It is probable that the apostle here alludes to the mode of administering baptism by immersion, the whole body being put under the water, which seemed to say, the man is drowned, is dead; and, when he came up out of the water, he seemed to have a resurrection to life; the man is risen again; he is alive! He was, therefore, supposed to throw off his old Gentile state as he threw off his clothes, and to assume…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Therefore we are buried … - It is altogether probable that the apostle in this place had allusion to the custom of baptizing by immersion. This cannot, indeed, be proved, so as to be liable to no objection; but I presume that this is the idea which would strike the great mass of unprejudiced readers. But while this is admitted, it is also certain that his main scope and intention was not to describe the mode of baptism; nor to affirm that that mode was to…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 3-10Verses 3-10 Baptism teaches the necessity of dying to sin, and being as it were buried from all ungodly and unholy pursuits, and of rising to walk with God in newness of life. Unholy professors may have had the outward sign of a death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness, but they never passed from the family of Satan to that of God. The corrupt nature, called the old man, because derived from our first father Adam, is crucified with Christ, in…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4We were therefore buried with Christ: The Christian's power over sin and ability to lead a new life come from union with Christ's death, burial, and resurrection (see 6:5, 8). From God's perspective, because Jesus died to sin, Christians have as well (see 6:10). The resurrection of Jesus means we also start a new life, and in the future, our bodies will also be raised.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. Therefore we are--rather, "were" (it being a past act, completed at once). buried with him, by baptism into death--(The comma we have placed after "him" will show what the sense is. It is not, "By baptism we are buried with Him into death," which makes no sense at all; but, "By baptism with Him into death we are buried with Him"; in other words, "By the same baptism which publicly enters us into His death, we are made partakers of His burial also"). To…Read the comment

Topics related to Romans 6:4

• Baptism
• Burial
• Death
• Glory
• Holiness
• Jesus Continued
• Jesus, the Christ
• Life
• Regeneration
• Resurrection
• Righteous
• Walking

In the dictionaries

• Christ
• Christ, Messiah
• Destroy
• Eternal life
• Faith
• Fruit
• Justification
• Life
• Newness
• Obey

Commentaries on Romans 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings