Romans 6:5

Romans 6:5 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
• New International Version (NIV)For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,

Context of Romans 6:5

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. 4Your 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. We 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. 7Sin no longer has any authority over someone who has died.

Romans 6:5 word by word

εἰ γὰρ σύμφυτοι γεγόναμεν τῷ ὁμοιώματι τοῦ θανάτου αὐτοῦ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς ἀναστάσεως ἐσόμεθα·Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Forγάρgar · forG1063
• ifεἰei · ifG1487
• we have beenγίνομαιginomai · to beG1096
• planted togetherσύμφυτοςsumphutos · unitedG4854
• in the likenessὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• in the likenessὁμοίωμαhomoiōma · likenessG3667
• of hisαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• deathθάνατοςthanatos · deathG2288
• we shall beεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• ·ἀλλάalla · butG235
• alsoκαίkai · andG2532
• resurrectionἀνάστασιςanastasis · resurrectionG386

Cross-references for Romans 6:5

• Romans 6:8So, if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
• 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.
• Philippians 3:10Yes, I want to know Christ better and better. I want to know the power which God showed when Christ rose from death. I want to have the same kind of troubles that he did. I want to obey God like he did in his death.
• Psalms 92:13They are like trees that someone has planted in the Lord's house. They grow well in the yard of our God's temple.
• Isaiah 5:2He dug the ground and he removed the stones. He planted the best vines in it. He built a tower in the middle of the vineyard so that he could watch it. He built a place to squeeze the grapes to make wine. Then he waited for the vines to make sweet grapes. But the vines made only bitter grapes.’
• Jeremiah 2:21I planted you in my land, like the very good seed of a vine. But see how you have changed! You have become like a wild vine. Your grapes are bad and useless.
• Matthew 15:13Jesus replied, ‘Those Pharisees are like plants that my Father God did not put in the ground. Like a farmer, he will completely pull all those plants out of the ground.
• John 12:24I tell you this: A seed of wheat continues to be only a single seed unless it falls into the ground. It must fall into the ground and then it must die. If it dies like that, it will grow to give a lot of seeds.
• John 15:1Jesus said, ‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

Commentaries on Romans 6:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5For if we have been planted together - . Dr. Taylor observes, that our translation does not completely express the apostle's meaning. are such plants as grow, the one upon and in the other, deriving sap and nourishment from it, as the mistletoe upon the oak, or the scion upon the stock in which it is grafted. He would therefore translate the words: For if we have been growers together with Christ in the likeness of his death, (or in that which is like his…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5For if we have been planted together - The word used here ́ sumphutosdoes not occur elsewhere in the New Testament. It properly means sown or planted at the same time; what sprouts or springs up together; and is applied to plants and trees that are planted at the same time, and that sprout and grow together. Thus, the name would be given to a field of grain that was sown at the same time, and where the grain sprung up and grew simultaneously. Hence, it…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
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. For if we have been planted together--literally, "have become formed together." (The word is used here only). in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection--that is, "Since Christ's death and resurrection are inseparable in their efficacy, union with Him in the one carries with it participation in the other, for privilege and for duty alike." The future tense is used of participation in His resurrection, because…Read the comment

Topics related to Romans 6:5

• Death
• Holiness
• Jesus Continued
• Jesus, the Christ
• Life
• Regeneration
• Righteous

In the dictionaries

• Destroy
• Faith
• Fruit
• Justification
• Newness
• Obey
• Reign
• Wages
• Works, Good
• Baptism (non-Immersionist View)

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