Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
For he that is dead—rather, "hath died."
is freed—"hath been set free."
from sin—literally, "justified," "acquitted," "got his discharge from sin." As death dissolves all claims, so the whole claim of sin, not only to "reign unto death," but to keep its victims in sinful bondage, has been discharged once for all, by the believer's penal death in the death of Christ; so that he is no longer a "debtor to the flesh to live after the flesh" (Romans 8:12).
Knowing this, etc.—The apostle now grows more definite and vivid in expressing the sin-destroying efficacy of our union with the crucified Saviour.
that our old man—"our old selves"; that is, "all that we were in our old unregenerate condition, before union with Christ" (compare Colossians 3:9-10; Ephesians 4:22-24; Galatians 2:20; Galatians 5:24; Galatians 6:14).
is—rather, "was."
crucified with him—in order.
that the body of sin—not a figure for "the mass of sin"; nor the "material body," considered as the seat of sin, which it is not; but (as we judge) for "sin as it dwells in us in our present embodied state, under the law of the fall."
might be destroyed—(in Christ's death)—to the end.
that henceforth we should not serve sin—"be in bondage to sin."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Romans 6:7:
Romans 6:1
Romans 6:11
2 Corinthians 5:14
Galatians 2:19
Ephesians 6:11
Colossians 3:3
1 Timothy 3:16
1 Peter 4:1
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