Romans 6:7 (WEB)
For he who has died has been freed from sin.
Catechism · 1
“For those who die in Christ's grace it is a participation in the death of the Lord, so that they can also share his Resurrection.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 6:3-9; Phil 3:10-11.
Fathers and councils · 6
Irenaeus of Lyons
“But He set a bound to his [state of] sin, by interposing death, and thus causing sin to cease, putting an end to it by the dissolution of the flesh, which should take place in the earth, so that man, ceasing at length to live to sin, and dying to it, might begin to live to God.” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 7.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Romans vi. 3–14” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom
“Since many even of them that seem to live are nothing better than dead men, living as they do in wickedness; or rather these are worse than the dead; “For he that is dead,” it is said, “is freed from sin,”but this man is a slave to sin.” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 7.
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Tertullian
“Thus, too, repute ye yourselves dead indeed to sin, but living to God through Christ Jesus.”” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 1–11.
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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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Clement of Alexandria
“For “to bring themselves into captivity,” and to slay themselves, putting to death “the old man, who is through lusts corrupt,” and raising the new man from death, “from the old conversation,” by abandoning the passions, and becoming free of sin, both the Gospel and the apostle enjoin.” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 6, 7; 2 Cor. x. 5; Eph. iv. 22–24; Col. iii. 8, 9, etc.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.3.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.3.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.3.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.3.
Cited together in Catechism §1006.
Cited together in Catechism §1006.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.3.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.3.
Cited together in Catechism §1006.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.3.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.3.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.3.