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Thus also consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Commentators emphasize that "reckon" is an active, ongoing command. It's not about creating a new reality through wishful thinking, but about consciously applying a spiritual fact to your life. This act of reckoning makes your union with Christ—your death to sin and life to God—operative in your daily experience. It is a command to align your thinking with what is already true of you in Christ.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Likewise. In like manner. This is an exhortation drawn from the argument in the previous verses. It shows the design and tendency of the C…
Reckon ye also yourselves (κα υμεις λογιζεσθε). Direct middle imperative of λογιζομα and complete proof that Paul does not mean th…
19th Century
Anglican
Theoretical application to the readers. They are to regard themselves as dead, that is, insensible and inaccessible to sin, but living in close all…
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Baptist
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in…
In this section Paul uses the key word “count” or “reckon” (GK 3357; the same term used so often in ch. 4 in connection with righteousness). Reckon…
16th Century
Protestant
So count you also yourselves, etc. Now is added a definition of that analogy to which I have referred. For having stated that Chr…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Likewise reckon you also yourselves Two things the apostle would have believers consider of themselves, and reckon themselves,…
The strongest motives against sin, and for promoting holiness, are stated here. Having been made free from the reign of sin, alive to God, and poss…
13th Century
Catholic
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.
