us in Christ. The two belong together. Justification would be immoral and impossible if we were not taken up and incorporated into Christ the Righteous One. And baptism is the rite of that entry, the seal on that justification, as the beginning of Romans 6 makes so clear. We are from henceforth ‘accepted in the Beloved’ (Eph. 1:6). This is a marvellous thought. If we are incorporated by God himself into Christ, his death, his resurrection, his victory, and his endless life, then we can never be the