Romans 6:11 reads: Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
In this passage of Scripture Paul is explaining truths about and attitudes we should take regarding our old sin nature and our new nature in Christ.
"1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin
that grace might increase?
2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin
still live in it?
3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been
baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?" (Romans 6:1-3)
"5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry." (Coll 3:5)
"13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit." (1 Cor. 12:13)
"4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through
baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the
dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in
newness of life.
5 For if we have become united with Him in the
likeness of His death, certainly we shall be also in the
likeness of His resurrection." (Rom. 6:4-5)
"20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me." (Gal. 2:20)
"6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with
Him, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we
should no longer be slaves to sin;
7 for he who has died is freed from sin.
8 Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that
we shall also live with Him,
9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the
dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him.
10 For the death that He died, He died to sin, once
for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin,
but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal
body that you should obey its lusts,
13 and do not go on presenting the members of your
body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present
yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members
as instruments of righteousness to God." (Rom. 6:6-13)
"5 For those who are habitually dominated by the sinful nature put their minds on the things of the sinful nature, but those who are habitually dominated by the Spirit put their minds on the things of the Spirit." Rom. 8#5
--GEM