diff --git a/46-ROM.usfm b/46-ROM.usfm
index 2cbb0b10..98946f62 100644
--- a/46-ROM.usfm
+++ b/46-ROM.usfm
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@
 
 \s5
 \v 8 But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live together with him.
-\v 9 We know that Christ has been raised from the dead, and that he is no longer dead. Death no longer rules over him.
+\v 9 We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead he cannot die again; death no longer has authority over him.
 
 \s5
 \v 10 For in regard to the death that he died to sin, he died once for all. However, the life that he lives, he lives it for God.