Romans 6:7

Romans 6:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For he that is dead is freed from sin.
• New International Version (NIV)because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For one who has died has been set free from sin.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For he who has died has been freed from sin.

Context of Romans 6:7

5For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection. 6We know that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.) 8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

Romans 6:7 word by word

ὁ γὰρ ἀποθανὼν δεδικαίωται ἀπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Forγάρgar · forG1063
• he that is deadἀποθνήσκωapothnēskō · to dieG599
• is freedδικαιόωdikaioō · to justifyG1344
• fromἀπόapo · away fromG575
• sinἁμαρτίαhamartia · sinG266

Cross-references for Romans 6:7

• Romans 6:2Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
• Romans 7:2For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.
• Colossians 3:1Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
• 1 Peter 4:1So, since Christ suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same attitude, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has finished with sin,
• Romans 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Commentaries on Romans 6:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7He that is dead is freed from sin - , literally, is justified from sin; or, is freed or delivered from it. Does not this simply mean, that the man who has received Christ Jesus by faith, and has been, through believing, made a partaker of the Holy Spirit, has had his old man, all his evil propensities destroyed; so that he is not only justified freely from all sin, but wholly sanctified unto God? The context shows that this is the meaning. Every instance…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7For he that is dead - This is evidently an expression having a proverbial aspect, designed to illustrate the sentiment just expressed. The Rabbis had an expression similar to this, “When one is dead he is free from commands.” (Grotius.) So says Paul, when a man dies he is exempt from the power and dominion of his master, of him who reigned over him. The Christian had been subject to sin before his conversion. But he has now become dead to it. And as when…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. 6-76-7. Knowing this, &c.--The apostle now grows more definite and vivid in expressing the sin-destroying efficacy of our union with the crucified Saviour. that our old man--"our old selves"; that is, "all that we were in our old unregenerate condition, before union with Christ" (compare Col 3:9, 10; Ep 4:22-24; Ga 2:20; 5:24; 6:14). is--rather, "was." crucified with him--in order. that the body of sin--not a figure for "the mass of sin"; nor the "material…Read the comment

Topics related to Romans 6:7

• Death
• Holiness
• Regeneration
• Righteous

In the dictionaries

• Destroy
• Faith
• Fruit
• Justification
• Newness
• Obey
• Reign
• Wages
• Works, Good
• Baptismal Regeneration

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