What Does Romans 6:6 Mean in the King James?
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The body’s former relation to missing is rendered inoperative, breaking its service to sin.
THE MEANING
The old human is co-crucified with Christ, and the body’s former relation to missing loses its force. You are no longer bound to serve sin; the verse speaks of a present change in what has mastery over you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that your body’s past enslavement still defines its present allegiance.
THE ROOT
καταργηθῇ
katargēthē
GROWS FROM
ἀργός
argos
Idle or inactive; the source of the sense of rendering something inoperative.
The verb translated “destroyed” carries the sense of rendering something idle or inoperative. The verse itself names the result: sin no longer has the body’s service, so its former power is disabled.
ALSO GROWS
katargeō: Render inactive, nullify, or bring to no effect.
καταργέω
This verb gives the force of “destroyed” in the verse: sin’s former power over the body is rendered inoperative.
argia: Idleness or inactivity.
ἀργία
This branch makes the inactive sense of the root visible in the change described here.
δουλεύειν
douleuein
GROWS FROM
δοῦλος
doulos
A slave or servant under another’s mastery.
The verb belongs to the slave vocabulary: it describes living under a master’s claim. “Serve sin” therefore names bondage, and the verse places the change in who has mastery.
ALSO GROWS
doulos: A slave or servant.
δοῦλος
The noun makes explicit the dependent status carried by the verb translated “serve.”
douleia: Slavery or bondage.
δουλεία
This branch shows the condition behind serving sin: subjection to its mastery.
συνεσταυρώθη
synestaurōthē
GROWS FROM
σταυρός
stauros
A stake or cross, the instrument of crucifixion.
The verb carries the force of being crucified “with” another: the old human shares Christ’s death. The verse locates the body’s release within that shared death.
ALSO GROWS
stauros: A stake or cross.
σταυρός
The noun names the instrument at the heart of the shared death described in the verse.
systauroō: Crucify together with another.
συσταυρόω
This related verb makes the “with him” dimension explicit: the old human is joined to Christ’s crucifixion.
THE PATTERN
Shared death with Christ breaks sin’s mastery and makes a different life possible.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.THE THREAD
For he that is dead is freed from sin.Both verses repeat ἁμαρτία (hamartia), meaning missing, rendered “sin” in the KJV. Romans 6:6 describes the body’s former enslavement and its nullification; 6:7 names death as release from that same power.
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