Likewise reckon ye; be like Christ, in dying to sin and living to God.

Dead indeed unto sin; dead in reference to sin, in the sense of putting it away from you, and having no more to do with it.

Alive unto God; living a new life of holiness devoted to God's glory, in imitation of Christ's resurrection-life.

Through Jesus Christ; by virtue of your union with him through faith. In this and the preceding verse, we have the key to the interpretation of the preceding comparison extended in various forms through verses Romans 6:4-9. Faith in Christ is the means not only of justification, but of sanctification; and produces a change not of state and condition only, but of character and conduct. It leads a person to live not unto himself, but unto Him who died for him and rose again.

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