The Apostle Paul
Romans 6:7ESV·traditional attribution

For one who has died has been set free from sin.

John Calvin Reformed

7. For he who has died, etc. This is an argument derived from what belongs to death or from its effect. For if death destroys all the actions of life, we who have died to sin ought to cease from those actions which it exercised during its life.

Matthew Henry Presbyterian

To use the doctrine of grace as license for sin is to abuse it utterly and reject it with abhorrence. Any opinion that opens a door to practical immorality, however plausible its appeal to free grace, contradicts the truth as it is in Jesus. Sanctification consists in two things: mortification, dying to sin, and vivification, living to righteousness.

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Commenting on Romans 6:1-23

John Gill Reformed Baptist

For he that is dead, is freed from sin. This is not to be understood of a natural or a corporeal death; for this is the effect of sin, and is inflicted by way of punishment for it, on Christless persons; so far is it from being an atonement for sin, as the Jews (t) fancy; besides, there are many persons, who as they die...