Romans 6:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Because he who is dead is free from sin.

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Referenced Verses

  • Rom 7:4 : 4 In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.
  • 1 Pet 4:1 : 1 So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin;
  • Rom 8:1 : 1 For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.
  • Col 3:1-3 : 1 If then you have a new life with Christ, give your attention to the things of heaven, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2 Keep your mind on the higher things, not on the things of earth. 3 For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.
  • Rom 6:8 : 8 But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;
  • Rom 7:2 : 2 For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.
  • Rom 6:2 : 2 In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 6:8-14
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    8But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;

    9Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him.

    10For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.

    11Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

    12For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

    13And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.

    14For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

  • Rom 6:1-6
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    1What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?

    2In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

    3Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death?

    4We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.

    5For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again;

    6Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

  • Rom 7:4-6
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    4In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

    5For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

    6But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

  • Rom 8:1-2
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    1For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.

    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

  • Rom 6:20-23
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    20When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.

    21What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.

    22But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

    23For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • 18And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.

  • 19For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

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    14For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death;

    15And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.

  • Rom 8:10-13
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    10And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

    11But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.

    12So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:

    13For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

  • 1And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,

  • 3For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.

  • 13And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;

  • 6For this was the reason why the good news of Jesus was given even to the dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but might be living before God in the spirit.

  • 16Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

  • 10Who was put to death for us, so that, awake or sleeping, we may have a part in his life.

  • 20If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

  • 1Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

  • 1So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin;

  • 5Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),

  • 6For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

  • 9And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death;

  • 6For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.

  • 9And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.

  • 24And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:

  • 17So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

  • 21That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • 24How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?

  • 2For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.

  • 12So then, death is working in us, but life in you.