Buried and Raised to New Life

1What then shall we say? Should we continue in sin so that grace may increase?

2Absolutely not! We who died to sin—how can we still live in it?

3Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Messiah Jesus were baptized into his death?

4Therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death, so that just as Messiah was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of life.

5For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection.

6knowing this, that our old self was crucified with him, so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, so that we should no longer be enslaved to sin,

7For the one who has died has been acquitted from sin.

8If we died with Messiah, we believe that we will also live with him.

9knowing that the Messiah, having been raised from the dead, no longer dies; death no longer rules over him.

10For the death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

11So also you, consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive to God in Messiah Jesus.