Romans 6:8
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
Romans 6:8 in other translations
| BSB | Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him. |
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| WEB | But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, |
| ASV | But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him; |
| YLT | And if we died with Christ, we believe that we also shall live with him, |
| DARBY | Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him, |
| BBE | But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him; |
| Webster | Now if we are dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: |
What does Romans 6:8 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Barnes' Notes
Verse 8. Now if we be dead with Christ. If we be dead in a manner similar to what he was; if we are made dead to sin by his work, as he was dead in the grave. Rom 6:4.
We believe. All Christians. It is an article of our faith. This does not refer to the future world so much as to the present. It becomes an article of our belief that we are to live with Christ.
That we shall also live with him. This does not refer primarily to the resurrection, and to the future state, but to the present. We hold it as an article of our faith, that we shall be alive with Christ. As he was raised up from death, so we shall be raised from the death of sin. As he lives, so we shall live in holiness. We are in fact raised up here, and, as it were, made alive to him. This is not confined, however, to the present life; but as Christ lives for ever, so the apostle goes on to show that we shall.
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Romans 6:3-10
Baptism teaches the necessity of dying to sin, and being as it were buried from all ungodly and unholy pursuits, and of rising to walk with God in newness of life. Unholy professors may have had the outward sign of a death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness, but they never passed from the family of Satan to that of God. The corrupt nature, called the old man, because derived from our first father Adam, is…
Romans 6:8 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Romans 6:8
- 2 Timothy 2:11-12
It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
- Colossians 3:3-4
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
- 2 Corinthians 4:10-14
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So then death worketh in us, but life in you. We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; …
- 2 Corinthians 13:4
For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
- John 14:19
Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
- Romans 6:3-5
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
- 1 Thessalonians 4:14-17
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
3-5; 2Ti 2:11,12
we believe.
Joh 14:19; 2Co 4:10-14; 13:4; Col 3:3,4; 1Th 4:14-17
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Context
- Romans 6:7
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
- Romans 6:8
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
- Romans 6:9
Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
Romans 6:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y si morimos con Cristo, creemos que también viviremos con él; |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Or si nous sommes morts avec Christ, nous croyons que nous vivrons aussi avec lui, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn wir aber mit Christo gestorben sind, so glauben wir, daß wir auch mit ihm leben werden, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Si autem mortui sumus cum Christo, credimus quia simul etiam vivemus cum Christo, |