Romans 6:10

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“The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.”

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BSBPD

“The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“for in that he died, to the sin he died once, and in that he liveth, he liveth to God;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Romans 6:10 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Luke 20:38He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all are alive.”
  2. Romans 6:11So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
  3. Romans 8:3For 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,
  4. Romans 14:7For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone.
  5. 2 Corinthians 5:15And 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.
  6. 2 Corinthians 5:21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
  7. Hebrews 9:26Otherwise, 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.
  8. 1 Peter 3:18For 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,
  9. 1 Peter 4:6That 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.

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