Is justified (δεδικαιωτα). Perfect passive indicative of δικαιοω, stands justified, set free from, adding this great word to death…

For he that is dead. This is evidently an expression having a proverbial aspect, designed to illustrate the sentiment just expressed. The …

Is freed.—“Absolved,” the same word that is used elsewhere for “justified.” The dead man is no longer liable to have the charge of…

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: knowing this, that our…

In v.5 we encounter a problem concerning resurrection. Is Paul referring to the future bodily resurrection of the saints? Many expositors think so,…

For he who has died, etc. This is an argument derived from what pertains to death or from its effect. For if death destroys all t…

For he that is dead, is freed from sin .
This is not to be understood of a natural or a corporeal death;

Baptism teaches the nece ity of dying to sin, and being, so to speak, buried from all ungodly and unholy pursuits, and of rising to walk with God i…

After showing that we should not continue to sin after baptism has made us dead to sin, the Apostle now shows that we have the means to do this.