Bible Strands
Romans 6:10
The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Paul addresses Roman believers, grounding their ethical instruction in the finished work of Christ following his explanation of baptism into His death and resurrection.
The words — The Greek term ἐφάπαξ (ephapax) translates literally as "once for all," marking the event as unrepeatable. The phrase τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ (tē hamartia) means "to sin," identifying the specific power that Christ's death terminated.
The thread — This single, definitive death is paralleled in 1 Peter 3:18, which records Christ suffering for sins once for all to bring believers to God.
Why it lands — The verse declares that Christ's death permanently broke sin's claim while His resurrection life permanently belongs to God, requiring readers to align their self-assessment with this established reality rather than treating it as a future goal.
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The Greek words
King James Version
For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Cross-references
- 2 Corinthians 5:21 God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
- 1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
- 1 Peter 4:6 That is why the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
- 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.
- Hebrews 9:26 Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
- Romans 8:3 For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
- Romans 14:7 For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.
- Luke 20:38 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all are alive.”
- Romans 6:11 So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.