7. For when a man dies, he is freed (loosed, delivered) from [the power of] sin [among men].
8. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
9. Because we know that Christ (the Anointed One), being once raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him.
10. For by the death He died, He died to sin [ending His relation to it] once for all; and the life that He lives, He is living to God [in unbroken fellowship with Him].
11. Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God [living in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus.