Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves (even as your Lord) to be dead indeed, х men (G3303)] - not 'dead in very deed,' or 'truly' х aleethoos (G230)], as the English reader is apt to suppose, but 'dead on the one hand;' though the particle scarcely admits of being weakly enough rendered in English.
Unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. The true reading appears to be, 'in Christ Jesus,' omitting the words "our Lord." [So A B D E F G, some cursives, and a majority of the versions, including the Vulgate; and so Lachmann, Tischendorf, and Tregelles The Received Text is supported by C K L ('Aleph (') has too (G3588) kurioo (G2962) heemoon (G2257) alone), and by some cursives and L ('Aleph (') has too (G3588) kurioo (G2962) heemoon (G2257) alone), and by some cursives and versions. The fathers vary.]
Believers Reminded of the Incentives to Holiness which Arise out of this Death to Sin and Life to God through Union to the Crucified and Risen Saviour (Romans 6:12-21)
Not content with showing that his doctrine has no tendency to relax the obligations to a holy life, the apostle now calls upon believers to manifest the sanctifying tendency of their new standing in the dead and Risen Christ.
NOTE:-As in this and the following verses the words "Sin," "God," "Obedience," "Righteousness," "Uncleanness," and "Iniquity," are figuratively used to represent a MASTER, we shall print them in capitals, to make this manifest to the eye, and so save explanations.