For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin.
Parallel translations
- WEB For he who has died has been freed from sin.
- KJV For he that is dead is freed from sin.
- BSB For anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
- NKJV For he who has died has been freed from sin.
- NASB for the one who has died is freed from sin.
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Quick answer
The one who has died with Christ has been set free from sin's legal claim and ruling power. Death severs the bondage that once held us.
Overview
Paul states a principle: death discharges a person from sin's dominion, just as death ends other legal obligations. Having died with Christ, the believer is judicially freed from sin's penalty and released from its tyranny. This freedom is the settled ground of the call to holy living.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- 1 Pet 4:1Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;
- Col 3:1–3If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
- Rom 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
- Rom 8:1There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
- Rom 6:8But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;
- Rom 6:2May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
- Rom 7:2For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
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