Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Parallel translations
- KJV Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- BSB So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
- NKJV Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- NASB So you too, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
- NLT So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus.
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Quick answer
We are to count ourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ. This faith-reckoning brings the truth of our union with Christ to bear on daily life.
Overview
Paul gives the first command of the chapter: 'consider' or reckon yourselves what you already are in Christ. This is not pretending but believing and acting upon the reality of union with the crucified and risen Lord. Such reckoning is the foundation for the practical exhortations that follow.
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- Col 3:3–5For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
- 1 Cor 6:20for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
- Rom 6:2May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
- Col 3:17Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
- Rom 6:13Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
- Gal 2:19–20For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
- Rom 8:18For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
- John 20:31but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
- Eph 2:7that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
- Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- 1 Pet 4:11If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
- Rom 5:1Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
- 1 Pet 2:5You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
- Phil 1:11being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
- Phil 4:7And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
- Rom 16:27—
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