But the husband has died, and her obligation to himhas ceased. Death, therefore, is separation and cessation. The death he died hedied to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. Soyou also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God inChrist Jesus. That means you are separated from it completely.
Sin is nothing more than a memory of the past.
It means stopped. And just so there can be no misunderstanding, Peter explains it'smeaning. Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with thesame thought, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased fromsin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer byhuman passions but by the will of God. When used with a group of words,it makes them negative. Any one who does not have the Spirit ofChrist does not belong to him.