Romans 6:2

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That’s unthinkable! As far as sin is concerned, we have died. So how can we still live under sin’s influence?

Cross References

Genesis 39:9

No one in this house is greater than I. He’s kept nothing back from me except you, because you’re his wife. How could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?”

Psalm 119:104

From your guiding principles I gain understanding. That is why I hate every path that leads to lying.

Luke 20:16

He will destroy these workers and give the vineyard to others.” Those who heard him said, “That’s unthinkable!”

Romans 5:11

In addition, our Lord Jesus Christ lets us continue to brag about God. After all, it is through Christ that we now have this restored relationship with God.

Romans 6:15

Then what is the implication? Should we sin because we are not controlled by God’s laws but by God’s favor? That’s unthinkable!

Romans 7:4

In the same way, brothers and sisters, you have died to the laws in Moses’ Teachings through Christ’s body. You belong to someone else, the one who was brought back to life. As a result, we can do what God wants.

Romans 7:6

But now we have died to those laws that bound us. God has broken their effect on us so that we are serving in a new spiritual way, not in an old way dictated by written words.

Galatians 2:19

When I tried to obey the laws in the Scriptures, those laws killed me. As a result, I live in a relationship with God. I have been crucified with Christ.

Galatians 6:14

But it’s unthinkable that I could ever brag about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. By his cross my relationship to the world and its relationship to me have been crucified.

Colossians 2:20

If you have died with Christ to the world’s way of doing things, why do you let others tell you how to live? It’s as though you were still under the world’s influence.

Colossians 3:3

You have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

1 Peter 1:14

Because you are children who obey God, don’t live the kind of lives you once lived. Once you lived to satisfy your desires because you didn’t know any better.

1 Peter 2:24

Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross so that freed from our sins, we could live a life that has God’s approval. His wounds have healed you.

1 John 3:9

Those who have been born from God don’t live sinful lives. What God has said lives in them, and they can’t live sinful lives. They have been born from God.