6:8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 6:9 We know 2 that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die 3 again; death no longer has mastery over him.
1 tn Grk “may walk in newness of life,” in which ζωῆς (zwhs) functions as an attributed genitive (see ExSyn 89-90, where this verse is given as a prime example).
2 tn Grk “knowing.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
3 tn The present tense here has been translated as a futuristic present (see ExSyn 536, where this verse is listed as an example).