Romans 6:7

New American Bible - revised edition

For a dead person has been absolved from sin.

Cross References

Matthew 11:19

The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ But wisdom is vindicated by her works.” Reproaches to Unrepentant Towns.

Romans 6:2

How can we who died to sin yet live in it?

Romans 6:8

If, then, we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.

Romans 7:2

Thus a married woman is bound by law to her living husband; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law in respect to her husband.

Romans 7:4

In the same way, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God.

Romans 8:1

Hence, now there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

1 Peter 4:1

Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same attitude (for whoever suffers in the flesh has broken with sin),