When he died, he died once to break the power of sin. But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God.
Parallel translations
- WEB For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
- KJV For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
- BSB The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.
- NKJV For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
- NASB For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all time; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
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Christ died to sin once for all and now lives wholly to God. His finished work is the pattern for the believer's new orientation.
Overview
The 'once' emphasizes the complete, unrepeatable sufficiency of Christ's atoning death. Having dealt fully with sin, the risen Christ now lives entirely unto God. Believers united to Him are called to reckon themselves in this same finished reality.
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Cross-references · 9
- 2 Cor 5:21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
- 1 Pet 4:6For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.
- 1 Pet 3:18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
- 2 Cor 5:15He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
- Rom 8:3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
- Rom 14:7–9For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
- Heb 9:26–28or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
- Rom 6:11Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Luke 20:38Now he is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for all are alive to him.”
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