Romans 6:6

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Summary

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

That our

Colossians 3:5

That the

Romans 7:24

Romans 8:3

Colossians 2:11

That henceforth

Bible References

That our

I am crucified with Christ, it is not I that now live, but Christ that liveth in me; the life I have in this body I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

now they who belong to Christ, have crucified the animal nature with the affections and passions thereof.

but far be it from me that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world is as contemptible to me, as I am to the world.

to quit the vicious habits of your former conversation, corrupted by deceitful passions:

Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.

That the

O wretched man that I am, what shall deliver me from this body of death?

God having sent his own son invested with a body like that of sinful men, as a sacrifice for sin, thereby destroyed its power; which the law could not effect, human nature being in such a corrupted state.

by whom also ye have obtain'd the true spiritual circumcision, not effected by men, when you were by a christian circumcision divested of all your carnal affections,

That henceforth

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, by making you slaves to the lusts thereof.

the divine grace thro' Jesus Christ our Lord. so then, with the mind I my self am devoted to the law of God; tho' my carnal inclinations are enslaved to the law of sin.

so that the moral obligations of the law might be fulfilled by us, in living according to the spiritual, and not the carnal tenor thereof:

Jesus answered them, I declare unto you, whosoever committeth sin, is a slave to sin.