Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Parallel translations
- WEB Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus 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 ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
- 1 Cor 6:20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
- Rom 6:2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
- Col 3:17And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
- Rom 6:13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
- Gal 2:19–20For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
- Rom 8:18For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
- John 20:31But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
- Eph 2:7That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
- Rom 6:23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- 1 Pet 4:11If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
- Rom 5:1Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
- 1 Pet 2:5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
- Phil 1:11Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
- Phil 4:7And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
- Rom 16:27To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.
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