What Does Romans 6:11 Mean?
Likewise count yourselves dead to falling short, but alive to God in Jesus, the Anointed One, our Lord.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.THE KEY
The verse shifts the account of who you are from your missing to the life you now have toward God through Christ.
THE MEANING
Your relation to missing is reckoned as ended, and your life is now toward God through Jesus Christ. The verse names this as a present reality to be counted, even while it does not say that failure can no longer occur.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Your failures are the truest account of who you are. This verse places your life in a different account: dead to sin and alive to God through Christ.
THE ROOT
λογίζεσθε
logizesthe
GROWS FROM
λογ-
to count, calculate, or account
“count” in this verse is logizesthe. Reckoning is accounting language: the verse names a way of counting yourself in light of Christ. This account recognizes the life described in the verse and gives it weight in how you understand yourself.
ALSO GROWS
logos: word, account, or reason
λόγος
Its shared word family links reckoning with an account that can be spoken or understood.
logismos: calculation or reasoning
λογισμός
This branch makes the counting sense of reckon visible.
ἁμαρτία
hamartia
GROWS FROM
ἁμαρτ-
missing or failing to reach the mark
“falling short” in this verse is hamartia. Hamartia carries the sense of missing, while the verse says you are dead to its claim over your life. Beside being alive to God, the word opens a movement from missing as a defining account to life oriented toward God.
ALSO GROWS
hamartanō: to miss or fail
ἁμαρτάνω
The verb carries the same sense of missing found in hamartia.
hamartēma: a mistake or offense
ἁμάρτημα
This branch names an act of missing, illuminating what the verse says no longer defines your life.
ζῶντας
zōntas
GROWS FROM
ζω-
to live or be alive
The same word family names being alive and life itself, so alive unto God describes a present orientation of life toward God. Paired with death to missing, it makes the verse a single movement into a different way of living.
ALSO GROWS
zōē: life
ζωή
The noun shares the root of alive and draws out the life named in the verse.
zōon: a living being
ζῷον
This branch shows the root naming living existence, not only an abstract state.
THE PATTERN
Accounting language names which condition is credited or withheld in a person’s relation to God.
Flourishing is a person to whom the LORD does not count crookedness, and in whose breath there is no deceit.For what does the scripture say? Abraham leaned his full weight on God, and it was counted to him for alignment.That God was in the Anointed One, exchanging the world back to himself, not counting their falls against them, and setting in us the word of exchange.THE THREAD
For what does the scripture say? Abraham leaned his full weight on God, and it was counted to him for alignment.The Greek word translated reckon here reappears as counted there: both carry the language of accounting. In Romans 6:11, that same word turns toward how you count yourself in light of the life you have through Christ.
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