Reference

Romans 6:11

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
9

Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

10

For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

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Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

12

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

13

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Why This Verse Was Tagged

Eternal Result Language
Semantic Discovery
30% relevance

This verse was identified through meaning similarity — its content is mathematically close to known verses in this theme, even without sharing the same vocabulary.

Counter-Arguments

The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.

Symbolic Baptism

The verse makes no mention of baptism, either literally or symbolically, and instead focuses on the believer's spiritual state of being "dead unto sin" and "alive unto God."

Conscious After Death

This verse uses the concepts of being "dead unto sin" and "alive unto God" metaphorically to describe a spiritual transformation in the present life, not a literal state of consciousness after physical death. The "death" and "life" referred to are spiritual states experienced by believers through their union with Christ.

Eternal Result Language

The verse describes a present state ("dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God") and does not explicitly use terms like "eternal" or "everlasting" to describe the duration or permanence of this state, thus not directly fitting the theme's definition of "eternal result language."