Romans 6:6 BSB — MannaFest

Romans 6:6

We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

BSB

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ASV

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;

KJV

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.

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Commentary

6 voices

Basil of Caesarea

CONCERNING BAPTISM 1.2 (379)

By these words we are taught that he who is baptized in Christ is baptized in his death and is not only buried with Christ and planted together with him but is first of all crucified with him. Thus we are instructed that, as he who is crucified is separated from the living, so also he who has been crucified with Christ in the likeness of his death is completely set apart from those who live according to the old man.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

This in a believer is crucified with Christ, mortified, gradually killed, by virtue of our union with him. That the body of sin - All evil tempers, words, and actions, which are the "members" of the "old man," Colossians iii, 5, might be destroyed.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The death of the cross was a slow death; the body, after it was nailed to the cross, gave many a throe and many a struggle: but it was a sure death, long in expiring, but expired at last; such is the mortification of sin in believers. It was a cursed death, Gal. iii. Sin dies as a malefactor, devoted to destruction; it is an accursed thing.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The actual transgression is certainly in a great measure prevented by the crucifying and killing of the original corruption. Destroy the body of sin, and then, though there should be Canaanites remaining in the land, yet the Israelites will not be slaves to them. It is the body of sin that sways the sceptre, wields the iron rod; destroy this, and the yoke is broken.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Our old man is crucified with him - This seems to be a farther extension of the same metaphor. When a seed is planted in the earth, it appears as if the whole body of it perished.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 882: “The Old Man Crucified” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1869)

EVERY new man is two men—every Believer in Christ is what he was and not what he was—the old nature and the new nature exist at the same time in each regenerate individual. That old nature the Apostle calls a man, because it is a complete manhood after the image of fallen Adam. It has the desires, the judgment, the mind, the thoughts, the language and the action of man as he is in his rebellious estate. He calls it the "old man," because it is as old as Eden's first transgression. It is as old as we are.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
τοῦτο	touto	this	G3778 →
γινώσκοντες	ginōskontes	knowing	G1097 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
παλαιὸς	palaios	old	G3820 →
ἡμῶν	hēmōn	of us	G3165 →
ἄνθρωπος	anthrōpos	self	G444 →
συνεσταυρώθη,	sunestaurōthē	was crucified with [Him],	G4957 →
ἵνα	ina	so that	G2443 →
καταργηθῇ	katargēthēa	may be annulled	G2673 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
σῶμα	sōma	body	G4983 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
ἁμαρτίας	hamartias	of sin	G266 →
τοῦ	tou	[that]	G3588 →
μηκέτι	mēketi	no longer	G3371 →
δουλεύειν	douleuein	being enslaved	G1398 →
ἡμᾶς	hēmas	we	G3165 →
τῇ	tēa	<the>	G3588 →
ἁμαρτίᾳ.	hamartia	to sin.	G266 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved…
leads to
- Galatians 5:24
  Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
- 2 Corinthians 5:15
  And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
- Romans 6:4–6
  We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of…
- Colossians 3:3–4
  For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
- 2 Corinthians 4:10–11
  We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
Through
Galatians 5:24
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
leads to
- Romans 13:14
  Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
- Romans 8:13
  For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
Through
Ephesians 4:22
to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
leads to
- Hebrews 12:1
  Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set…

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Romans

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

Related verses

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About Romans