Romans 6

Dying and Living with Christ

1What then shall we say? Should we continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3Or do you not know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4Therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the Father's glory, we too 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. 6We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be rendered powerless and we might no longer be enslaved to sin. 7For whoever has died has been freed from sin's claim.

8Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, 9knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will never die again; 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. 11In the same way, consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.