Romans 6:3-4, 8-11
Chapter 6
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Don’t you realize that in baptism, which unites us with Christ, we are all baptized and immersed into his death?
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Through this baptism into his death, we are buried with Christ, and just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we begin walking in a new life.
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But if we have died with Christ, we believe we will also live with him.
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We know that Christ, once risen from the dead, will never die again, and death has no more authority over him.
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For, by dying, he is dead to sin once and for all, and now, the life he lives is a life with God.
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So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God, in Christ Jesus.
Commentaries
Dead to Sin, Alive with Christ.
Paul is realistic and recognizes that sin has not yet been eliminated from the world; that is why he describes inclusion in Christ through baptism as a process that has already started. With bold metaphors, in which he vividly expresses his passion as an apostle, Paul views the baptized as part of the same redemptive act of Christ: consecrated to the Messiah and buried with him in his death (4), grafted into his resurrection (5), with their old human nature crucified and their status as slaves abolished (6), ending with the final exhortation: “consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus” (11).