Bible Strands
Romans 6:11
So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Paul writes to the Roman believers, drawing the practical conclusion from their union with Christ's death and resurrection (Rom 6:3–5). The verse is the hinge between Christ's accomplished work (v. 10) and the prohibition that follows (v. 12).
The words — λογίζεσθε (logizesthe), present imperative, carries a commercial sense of ongoing reckoning or accounting, not a one-time declaration. The present tense demands the posture be maintained continuously, not merely adopted once.
The thread — Colossians 3:3 restates the same reality ("you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God"); Romans 6:2 poses the rhetorical question that 6:11 answers in the imperative.
Why it lands — It is a command to stop treating sin as a live option and God as a dead one. The reader is told to keep the books that way, not to feel a certain way.
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The Greek words
King James Version
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Cross-references
- Colossians 3:3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
- 1 Corinthians 6:20 you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
- Romans 6:2 Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
- Romans 6:13 Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.
- Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.
- Galatians 2:19 For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
- Romans 8:18 I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us.
- John 20:31 But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.
- Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- Ephesians 2:7 in order that in the coming ages He might display the surpassing riches of His grace, demonstrated by His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.