Romans 6:5

if i.e. "as;" an assumed fact

planted together Better (with regard to the form of the Gr. word), vitally connected. Not implantingbut coalescenceis the idea. (The word occurs nowhere else in N. T.)

in the likeness Not His Death, but its Likeness; i.e. our"death unto sin" in Him. (See on Romans 6:2.) As believers, we have become vitally, inseparably, connected with that "death;" in other words, freedom from the claim of doom is an essentialof our condition "in Him." (Romans 8:1.)

we shall be i.e., practically, "we are and shall be." This is to bethe sequel of justification, now and ever.

his resurrection Which was not merely the reversal of His Death, but His entrance on the "powerof an endless life." So the justified live, not merely "not unto sin," but "unto God."