Romans 6:7
Good News Translation
For when we die, we are set free from the power of sin.

New Revised Standard Version
For whoever has died is freed from sin.

Contemporary English Version
We know sin doesn't have power over dead people.

New American Bible
For a dead person has been absolved from sin.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he that is dead is justified from sin.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For he that is dead is justified from sin.

For he.

Romans 6:2,8 God forbid! For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein? . . .

Romans 7:2,4 For the woman that hath an husband, whilst her husband liveth is bound to the law. But if her husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband. . . .

Colossians 3:1-3 Therefore if you be risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. . . .

1 Peter 4:1 Christ therefore having suffered in the flesh, be you also armed with the same thought: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sins:

freed.

Romans 8:1 There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh.

Context
Dead to Sin, Alive to God
6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer. 7For he that is dead is justified from sin. 8Now, if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ.…
Cross References
Matthew 11:19
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say: Behold a man that is a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of publicans and sinners. And wisdom is justified by her children.

1 Peter 4:1
Christ therefore having suffered in the flesh, be you also armed with the same thought: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sins:

Romans 6:6
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