“one who has died has been justified from sin” (my translation) grounds the reality that “we would no longer be enslaved to sin.” In other words, verse 7 explains why verse 6c is true. Verse 7 is offered as a reason or explanation for the reality of verse 6c, a syntactical link made clear by the conjunction beginning verse 7 (gar). To translate a syntactical point into dogmatic terms, vindication from sin’s condemnation leads to freedom from the enslaving power of sin. Justification frees one for