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The original means justified or acquitted from sin — absolution from its guilt and merited penalty. Law has received its rightful claim in the Person of the Surety. Freed from sin's penalty, we are also freed from its power. We are dead to sin, because in Christ we have died for sin. Consequently we are also freed from its practice (Job 3:19; Romans 7:24; 1 John 3:6-9).

(T. Robinson, D. D.)

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KJV: For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

WEB: For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;