Ceased from sin
The very least which can be implied in these words is that the persons spoken of in them, namely all real Christians or believers in Christ, are made free from outward sin. And the same freedom which St. Paul here expresses in such variety of phrases, St. Peter expresses in that one (1 Peter 4:1-2): He who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, that he no longer should live to the desires of men, but to the will of God. For this ceasing from sin, if it is interpreted in the lowest sense as regarding only the outward behavior, must denote the ceasing from the outward act, from any outward transgression of the law.
1771 text
4. The very least which can be implied in these words, is, that the persons spoken of therein, namely, all real Christians or believers in Christ, are made free from outward sin. And the same freedom which St. Paul here expresses in such variety of phrases, St. Peter expresses in that one (1 Pet. iv. 1, 2.) He that hath suffered in the flesh, hath ceased from sin,――that he no longer should live――to the desires of men, but to the will of God. For this ceasing from sin, if it be interpreted in the lowest sense, as regarding only the outward behaviour, must denote the ceasing from the outward act, from any outward transgression of the law.