Declared-righteous from what?

Declared-righteous from sin: 

Someone can be declared-righteous (or "justified"). From what can someone be declared-righteous? 

It is written in Romans that someone can be declared-righteous from sin: "the (one) having-died HAS-BEEN(-DECLARED)-RIGHTEOUS [dikaioó 1344 in Greek] FROM SIN" (Romans 6:7).

Examples of being "declared-righteous" from sin? 

1 Corinthians 6:

Paul presented a list of sins, saying: "do-you not know that unrighteous (ones) will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be-deceived. Neither sexually-immoral (ones), nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor (homo-)passive(-male-partners), nor (homosexuals-)male-bed(ers), nor thieves, nor greedy (ones) — not drunkards, not revilers, not swindlers — will-inherit (the) kingdom (of) God" (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).

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In the very next verse, Paul then indicated: "And some (of you) WERE these (things). But you-washed(-them)-away, but you-were sanctified, BUT YOU-WERE-DECLARED-RIGHTEOUS [dikaioó 1344 in Greek] in the name (of) the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit (of) our God" (1 Corinthians 6:11). 

Here after listing sins in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, Paul then indicated that "some (of you) WERE these (things)" (1 Corinthians 6:11) "BUT YOU-WERE-DECLARED-RIGHTEOUS" (1 Corinthians 6:11). It may be implied that Paul could have indicated that people in his audience were declared righteous from these sins that he presented, in the sense that they WERE those things in the past, BUT then WERE DECLARED RIGHTEOUS (from these sins). 

1 Corinthians 15:

Paul wrote: "Sober-up RIGHTEOUSLY [dikaiōs 1346 in Greek] and DO NOT BE-SINNING" (1 Corinthians 15:34). 

Is there an indirect link between being declared-righteous and sin? 

Righteousness is directly opposed (by definition) to unrighteousness. It is written in 1 John: "All unrighteousness is (a) SIN" (1 John 5:17). If "All unrighteousness is (a) SIN" (1 John 5:17), then SIN can be indirectly opposed to righteousness. 

Being declared-righteous (from sin) could be indirectly opposed to being declared-sinning. In the Bible, someone who is a righteous person can be described as being indirectly in opposition to someone who is a sinning person. 

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Descriptions of a righteous person:
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