Rom 6:7  for he that hath died is justified from sin. ASV

Rom 6:7  For he that is dead is freed from sin. KJV

Rom 6:7  For the one that died has been justified from sin. LITV
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Yet people believe that a Christian is some kind of a spiritual Zombie. He's dead... [to sin]... but yet is still in a "life & death" battle with it. As one infamous hooter said... "If you are not killing sin then sin will be killing you". Well... if sin is killing a person then such a person is no Christian, that's for sure. What kind of a 'savior' do these people believe in who "saves" from sin yet leaves people still in their sin? The Bible teaches that the Christian Gospel is the very Power of God. That power is effectual & made known in the elect initially by Regeneration. It is by the Power of God that anyone is Regenerated. But then it don't stop there folks. The Power of God continues to exert itself in the area of our Sanctification.

And now ladies & gentilemen, a very special treat. I am going to quote a well-known commentator's notes on this verse.  See if you know who this is. But more importantly, read what he wrote v-e-r-y carefully & thoughtfully. It's devastating! Here it is;

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Rom 6:7 -
He that is dead is freed from sin - Δεδικαιωται, literally, is justified from sin; or, is freed or delivered from it. Does not this simply mean, that the man who has received Christ Jesus by faith, and has been, through believing, made a partaker of the Holy Spirit, has had his old man, all his evil propensities destroyed; so that he is not only justified freely from all sin, but wholly sanctified unto God? The context shows that this is the meaning. Every instance of violence is done to the whole scope and design of the apostle, by the opinion, that “this text is a proof that believers are not fully saved from sin in this life, because only he that is dead is freed from sin.” Then death is his justifier and deliverer! Base and abominable insinuation, highly derogatory to the glory of Christ! Dr. Dodd, in his note on the preceding verse, after some inefficient criticism on the word καταργηθῃ, destroyed, which, he thinks, should be rendered enervated, has the following most unevangelical sentiment: “The body of sin in believers is, indeed, an enfeebled, conquered, and deposed tyrant, and the stroke of death finishes its destruction.” So then, the death of Christ and the influences of the Holy Spirit were only sufficient to depose and enfeeble the tyrant sin; but Our death must come in to effect his total destruction! Thus our death is, at least partially, our Savior; and thus, that which was an effect of sin (for sin entered into the world, and death by sin) becomes the means of finally destroying it! That is, the effect of a cause can become so powerful, as to react upon that cause and produce its annihilation! The divinity and philosophy of this sentiment are equally absurd. It is the blood of Christ alone that cleanses from all unrighteousness; and the sanctification of a believer is no more dependent on death than his justification. If it he [be] said, “that believers do not cease from sin till they die;” I have only to say, they are such believers as do not make a proper use of their faith; and what can be said more of the whole herd of transgressors and infidels? They cease to sin, when they cease to breathe. If the Christian religion bring no other privileges than this to its upright followers, well may we ask, wherein doth the wise man differ from the fool, for they have both one end? But the whole Gospel teaches a contrary doctrine.
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