Romans 6:11
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Cross-reference
Romans 6:2 states believers have died to sin, which Romans 6:11 builds on by calling them to consider that reality.
Romans 6:13 commands offering yourself to God as alive from the dead, the practical outworking of the reckoning in Romans 6:11.
In Romans 6:23, the wages of sin is death but God gives eternal life — the basis for choosing death to sin and life in Christ.
Romans 6:10 provides the foundation: Christ died to sin once and lives to God—the pattern believers are called to consider themselves in.
Romans 7:6 expands the death-to-life theme to release from the law, serving in newness of Spirit—a different application of the same principle.
In Romans 5:1, justification brings peace with God — the foundation for being alive to God and dead to sin.
In John 20:31, belief in Christ brings life — that life is the very life we are alive to in Romans 6:11.
In 1 Corinthians 6:20, being bought with a price grounds the command to be dead to sin and alive to God in our redemption.
In Galatians 2:19, Paul's own experience mirrors this: dead to law, alive to God — the same death-to-life pattern.
In Galatians 2:20, being crucified with Christ explains how we are dead to sin and Christ lives in us — the mechanism of this life.
In Colossians 3:3-5, being dead and hidden with Christ is the same truth — it then commands putting to death earthly members.
Luke 20:38 explicitly says 'all live to him'—directly parallel to being 'alive to God in Christ Jesus', affirming resurrection life.
1 Peter 4:2 echoes the same call: consider yourself dead to sin so you live for God's will, not human passions.
1 Peter 2:24 explicitly states Christ bore sins so we 'die to sin and live to righteousness'—a near-identical echo of Romans 6:11's core idea.
2 Corinthians 5:15 says Christ died so we live for him, not ourselves—directly parallels being alive to God, emphasizing the purpose of new life.
Luke 15:24's 'dead and alive again' illustrates the same spiritual transition—the prodigal's return mirrors being dead to sin and alive to God.
2 Peter 1:9 warns that forgetting cleansing from sin leads to blindness — the opposite of actively considering oneself dead to sin.