Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Romans 6:1-23
No Compromise Romans 6:2 I. What did the Apostle mean by the Words Dead unto Sin? (1) He meant death of the Judicial Penalty of Sin beyond the power of sin to inflict its penalty upon us. The judicial idea runs through the whole Epistle. A criminal who has served his term of imprisonment for an offence against the law, at the expiration of his sentence is dead to that particular crime. The penalty will not be exacted of him twice over. Even so the Christian, who implicitly accepts Christ's... read more
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Romans 6:6-11
(6-11) Further description of this process. The Christian’s union with the crucified Christ binds him also to crucify or mortify (ascetically) the sinful desires of his body. Thus he is released from the dominion of those desires. But this is not all. Just as Christ passed from the cross to the resurrection, and overcame death once for all, exchanging for it a life wholly dependent upon God; so, too, His followers must consider themselves cut off irrevocably—as if by death itself—from sin, and... read more