Romans 6:11
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
KJV
οὕτως καὶ ὑμεῖς λογίζεσθε ἑαυτοὺς εἶναι νεκροὺς μὲν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ ζῶντας δὲ τῷ θεῷ ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ.
Greek NT
Ita et vos existimate vos mortuos quidem esse peccato, viventes autem Deo, in Christo Jesu Domino nostro.
Vulgate
Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.
ASV
So do you also reckon that you are dead to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
ζάω
zao
verb · 140×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λογίζομαι
logizomai
verb · 40×
μέν
men
particle · 177×
νεκρός
nekros
adjective · 128×
οὕτω
outo
adverb · 208×
ἁμαρτία
amartia
noun · 173×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἑαυτοῦ
eautou
reflexive_pronoun · 316×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: εἶναι νεκροὺς μὲν | WH/Treg/NA: εἶναι νεκροὺς μὲν | RP: νεκροὺς μὲν εἶναι | NIV: νεκροὺς μὲν
- εἶναι νεκροὺς μὲν — SBLGNT
- εἶναι νεκροὺς μὲν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Nestle-Aland 27
- νεκροὺς μὲν εἶναι — Robinson-Pierpont
- νεκροὺς μὲν — Reader's GNT (NA27)
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SBLGNT: Ἰησοῦ | WH/Treg/NIV: Ἰησοῦ | RP: + τῷ κυρίῳ ἡμῶν
- Ἰησοῦ — SBLGNT
- Ἰησοῦ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + τῷ κυρίῳ ἡμῶν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Themes
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12 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 2 passages
§1694Incorporated into Christ by Baptism, Christians are "dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus" and so participate in the life of the Risen Lord.8 Following Christ and united with him,9 Christians can strive to be "imitators of God as beloved children, and walk in love"10 by conforming their thoughts, words and actions to the "mind . . . which is yours in Christ Jesus,"11 an…
§1987The grace of the Holy Spirit has the power to justify us, that is, to cleanse us from our sins and to communicate to us "the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ" and through Baptism:34 But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion …
1. Moses in the beginning of the history and writings of the Old Testament speaks to us of the objects of sense, and enumerates them to us at length. For, In the beginning, he says, God made the heaven and the earth, and then he adds, that light was created, and a second heaven and the stars, the various kinds of living creatures, and, that we may not delay by going through par…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210211.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid. Calvin shows that Paul refutes the charge of antinomianism. Those who have been united with Christ in his death are dead to sin and alive to God. Baptism signifies this union with Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection. Sin shall not have dominion over the believer, for we are not under law but under grace. The …
A brother asked Abba Macarius the Egyptian, "What does it mean to be dead to one's neighbor?" The old man answered, "If a dead man is reproached, he does not respond; if he is praised, he does not exalt himself. Be like the dead man, considering neither the evil nor the praise of men, and you will be saved."
Heidelberg Catechism · 2 passages
Q. What further advantage do we receive from Christ's sacrifice and death on the cross? A. Through Christ's death our old selves are crucified, put to death, and buried with him, so that the evil desires of the flesh may no longer rule us, but that instead we may dedicate ourselves as an offering of gratitude to him.
Q. What is the coming to life of the new self? A. It is wholehearted joy in God through Christ and a delight to do every kind of good as God wants us to.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 6:20 — For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
- 1Pet 2:5 — Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
- 1Pet 2:24 — Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
- 1Pet 4:1 — Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
- 1Pet 4:2 — That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
- 1Pet 4:11 — If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be p
- 2Cor 5:15 — And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
- 2Pet 1:9 — But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
- Col 3:3 — For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
- Col 3:17 — And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
- Eph 2:7 — That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
- Gal 2:19 — For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
- Gal 2:19 — For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
- John 20:31 — But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
- Luke 15:24 — For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
- Phil 1:11 — Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
- Phil 4:7 — And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
- Rom 5:1 — Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
- Rom 6:2 — God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
- Rom 6:10 — For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
- Rom 6:13 — Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto Go
- Rom 6:13 — Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto Go
- Rom 6:23 — For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Rom 7:6 — But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
- Rom 8:18 — For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
- Rom 16:27 — To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.