the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Romans 6:7
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Anyone who has died is made free from sin's control.
For he who has died is freed from sin.
For he that is deed ys iustified from synne.
For he who has died has been freed from sin.
For the person who has died has been freed from sin.1 Peter 4:1;">[xr]
for the one who has died is freed from sin.
Anyone who has died is made free from sin's control.
for he that has died is justified from sin.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
For one who has died has been set free from sin.
For he who has died has been freed from sin.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
for he who has paid the penalty of death stands absolved from his sin.
For he that is deed, is iustefied fro synne.
for he that hath died is justified from sin.
For anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
We know that sin doesn't have power over dead people.
For the person who has died [with Christ] has been freed from [the power of] sin.
for he that hath died is justified from sin.
Because he who is dead is free from sin.
For someone who has died has been cleared from sin.
For he that has died is justified from sin.
For he who is dead is set free from sin.
for he that is dead [fn] , is emancipated from sin.
For he that is dead, is freed from sinne.
When a man is dead, he is free from the power of sin.
For whoever has died is freed from sin.
For he that is dead, is freed from sinne.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
For, he that hath died, hath become righteously acquitted from his sin.
For he that is dead is justified from sin.
For he that is dead, is iustified from sinne.
For when we die, we are set free from the power of sin.
since a person who has died is freed from sin.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
For the one who has died has been freed from sin.
For the one that died has been justified from sin.
for he who hath died hath been set free from the sin.
For he that is deed, is made righteous fro synne
for by its being dead, we are set free from sin.
(For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)
For he who has died has been freed from sin.
Our living-death sets us free from the power of sin.
for he who has died is freed from sin.
for he who has died has been justified from sin.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
For he: Romans 6:2, Romans 6:8, Romans 7:2, Romans 7:4, Colossians 3:1-3, 1 Peter 4:1
freed: or, justified, Romans 8:1
Reciprocal: 1 Peter 2:24 - being
Cross-References
Then the people began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them.
The sons of God saw the beautiful women and took any they wanted as their wives.
Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not put up with humans for such a long time, for they are only mortal flesh. In the future, their normal lifespan will be no more than 120 years."
In those days, and for some time after, giant Nephilites lived on the earth, for whenever the sons of God had intercourse with women, they gave birth to children who became the heroes and famous warriors of ancient times.
Pairs of every kind of bird, and every kind of animal, and every kind of small animal that scurries along the ground, will come to you to be kept alive.
So Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him.
But the wicked will die. The Lord 's enemies are like flowers in a field— they will disappear like smoke.
Fear of the Lord lengthens one's life, but the years of the wicked are cut short.
The Lord has made everything for his own purposes, even the wicked for a day of disaster.
That is why your land is in mourning, and everyone is wasting away. Even the wild animals, the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea are disappearing.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For he that is dead, is freed from sin. This is not to be understood of a natural or a corporeal death; for this is the effect of sin, and is inflicted by way of punishment for it, on Christless persons; so far is it from being an atonement for sin, as the Jews t fancy; besides, there are many persons, who as they die in their sins, they will rise in them; though a natural death is alluded to, when persons are free from those laws and obligations to service and duty they are under whilst living: but here it is to be understood of a spiritual or mystical death, and of persons who are dead to the law, by the body of Christ; dead to sin by the sacrifice and grace of Christ; who are baptized into the death of Christ, and in imitation of him: such are "freed from sin"; not from the being of it; nor from the burden of it; nor from a continual war with it; nor from slips and falls into it; no, not even freed from it, in the most solemn services and acts of religion; but they are freed from the dominion of it, from servitude to it, and also from the guilt of it, and from obligation to punishment on account of it: they are, as it is in the Greek text, and as the Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions read, "justified from sin".
t See Gill "Ro 5:11".
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For he that is dead - This is evidently an expression having a proverbial aspect, designed to illustrate the sentiment just expressed. The Rabbis had an expression similar to this, “When one is dead he is free from commands.” (Grotius.) So says Paul, when a man dies he is exempt from the power and dominion of his master, of him who reigned over him. The Christian had been subject to sin before his conversion. But he has now become dead to it. And as when a servant dies, he ceases to be subject to the control of his master, so the Christian being now dead to sin, on the same principle, is released from the control of his former master, sin. The idea is connected with Romans 6:6, where it is said that we should not be the slaves of sin any more. The reason of this is assigned here, where it is said that we are freed from it as a slave is freed when he dies. Of course, the apostle here is saying nothing of the future world. His whole argument has respect to the state of the Christian here; to his being freed from the bondage of sin. It is evident that he who is not freed from this bondage here, will not be in the future world. But the argument of the apostle has no bearing on that point.
Is freed - Greek, Is justified. The word here is used clearly in the sense of setting at liberty, or destroying the power or dominion. The word is often used in this sense; compare Acts 13:38-39; compare a similar expression in 1 Peter 4:1, “He that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin.” The design of the apostle is not to say that the Christian is perfect, but that sin has ceased to have dominion over him, as a master ceases to have power over a slave when he is dead. That dominion may be broken, so that the Christian may not be a slave to sin, and yet he may be conscious of many failings and of much imperfection; see Romans 7:0.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Romans 6:7. He that is dead is freed from sin. — δεδικαιωται, literally, is justified from sin; or, is freed or delivered from it. Does not this simply mean, that the man who has received Christ Jesus by faith, and has been, through believing, made a partaker of the Holy Spirit, has had his old man, all his evil propensities destroyed; so that he is not only justified freely from all sin, but wholly sanctified unto God? The context shows that this is the meaning. Every instance of violence is done to the whole scope and design of the apostle, by the opinion, that "this text is a proof that believers are not fully saved from sin in this life, because only he that is dead is freed from sin." Then death is his justifier and deliverer! Base and abominable insinuation, highly derogatory to the glory of Christ! Dr. Dodd, in his note on the preceding verse, after some inefficient criticism on the word καταργηθη, destroyed, which, he thinks, should be rendered enervated, has the following most unevangelical sentiment: "The body of sin in believers is, indeed, an enfeebled, conquered, and deposed tyrant, and the stroke of death finishes its destruction." So then, the death of Christ and the influences of the Holy Spirit were only sufficient to depose and enfeeble the tyrant sin; but OUR death must come in to effect his total destruction! Thus our death is, at least partially, our Saviour; and thus, that which was an effect of sin (for sin entered into the world, and death by sin) becomes the means of finally destroying it! That is, the effect of a cause can become so powerful, as to react upon that cause and produce its annihilation! The divinity and philosophy of this sentiment are equally absurd. It is the blood of Christ alone that cleanses from all unrighteousness; and the sanctification of a believer is no more dependent on death than his justification. If it he said, "that believers do not cease from sin till they die;" I have only to say, they are such believers as do not make a proper use of their faith; and what can be said more of the whole herd of transgressors and infidels? They cease to sin, when they cease to breathe. If the Christian religion bring no other privileges than this to its upright followers, well may we ask, wherein doth the wise man differ from the fool, for they have both one end? But the whole Gospel teaches a contrary doctrine.
