Romans 6:7

For he that is dead, &c. Better, with a slight paraphrase, for he who has once died to sin now stands free from its claim. The legal claimof sin is meant here, not its moral dominion, for the Gr. word rendered "freed" in E. V., is lit. (see margin of E. V.) justified. The argument is that, since death is the penalty of sin, then if death has been suffered and passed, the penalty is exhausted and the claim cancelled: now such is the position of the justified in Christ; His death was endured, and is now past, for them and as theirs;therefore they live as those who have exhausted penalty and are free from its claim in fact, "justified from sin."