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Romans 6:4-6 KJV
Romans · chapter 6 · verses 4–6
4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.Romans 6:4-6 · King James Version
Romans 6:4-6 in context
2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Commentary
Cross references
- 2 Corinthians 5:17
- Colossians 3:10
- Ephesians 4:22-24
- 1 Peter 3:21
- Romans 7:6
- Romans 6:9
- 2 Corinthians 13:4
- Romans 6:3
- Philippians 3:10-11
- Colossians 2:12
- 2 Corinthians 4:10
- Romans 6:8-12
Key words (Strong's)
- henceforthmēketino longer, no more, not hereafterG3371 →
- destroyedkatargeōto render idle, unemployed, inactivate, inoperative, to cause a person or thing to have…G2673 →
- togethersymphytosborn together with, of joint origin, connate, congenital, innate, implanted by birth or…G4854 →
- likenesshomoiōmathat which has been made after the likeness of something, a figure, image, likeness…G3667 →
- baptismbaptismaimmersion, submersion, of calamities and afflictions with which one is quite overwhelmed…G908 →
- newnesskainotēsnewness, in the new state of life in which the Holy Spirit places us so as to produce a…G2538 →
- Knowingginōskōto learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of perceive, feel, to become known, to…G1097 →
- ChristchristosChrist = " anointed" , Christ was [and is], anointedG5547 →
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The apostle's transition, which joins this discourse with the former, is observable: "What shall we say then? Rom 6:1. What use shall we make of this sweet and comfortable doctrine? Shall we do evil that good may come, as some say we do? Rom 3:8.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-23