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Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, Valentin de Boulogne

Romans 6:11

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Romans 6:11 (WEB)

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Catechism · 2

Life in Christ

  • §1694Part Three · Life in ChristRead at vatican.va

    “Incorporated into Christ by Baptism, Christians are "dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus" and so participate in the life of the Risen Lord.” — Catechism footnote: Rom 6:11 and cf. 6:5; cf. Col 2:12.

Grace and Justification

  • §1987Article 2 · Grace and JustificationRead at vatican.va

    “So you also must consider yourselves as dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.” — Catechism footnote: Rom 6:8-11.

Fathers and councils · 8

Cyril of Jerusalem

John Chrysostom

  • “And again he uses it of Christ, saying, “In Christ Jesus.” ( Rom. vi. 11, 23 , &c.) In short, we may often and continually find these expressions interchanged; now this would not have taken place, had not the same Essence been in every instance their subject.” — the author cites it

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Jerome

Tertullian

Hilary of Poitiers

Augustine of Hippo

  • “To those who are baptized into the death of Christ, then,—and this class includes not adults only, but infants as well,—he says: “Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 1–11

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