¹What should we say then? Should we continue to sin so that God’s kindness^awill increase? ²That’s unthinkable! As far as sin is concerned, we have died. So how can we still live under sin’s influence?

³Don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? ⁴When we were baptized into his death, we were placed into the tomb with him. As Christ was brought back from death to life by the glorious power of the Father, so we, too, should live a new kind of life. ⁵If we’ve become united with him in a death like his, certainly we will also be united with him when we come back to life as he did. ⁶We know that the person we used to be was crucified with him to put an end to sin in our bodies. Because of this we are no longer slaves to sin. ⁷The person who has died has been freed from sin.

⁸If we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. ⁹We know that Christ, who was brought back to life, will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him. ¹⁰When he died, he died once and for all to sin’s power. But now he lives, and he lives for God. ¹¹So consider yourselves dead to sin’s power but living for God in the power Christ Jesus gives you.

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Romans 6:4: We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Footnotes

a 6:1 Or “grace.”