By quoting this hymn here, what Paul is saying is this: ‘I am not telling you anything new. You are not hearing anything different from what was emphasized when you were immersed as a new believer. That act underlined that the Christian life is all about finishing with sin and walking in newness of life; it is about sin being dead and buried, and about living in the light. What you have known from the beginning, I am stressing once again.’ Believers are to walk in love and
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