Romans
6:1-11
(1) What shall we say then? Are we
to continue in sin that grace may abound?
(2) By no means! How can we who
died to sin still live in it?
(3) Do you not know that all of us
who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
(4) We were buried therefore with
him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the
dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
(5) For if we have been united
with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a
resurrection like his.
(6) We know that our old self was
crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing,
so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
(7) For one who has died has been
set free from sin.
(8) Now if we have died with
Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
(9) We know that Christ being
raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over
him.
(10) For the death he died he died
to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.
(11) So you also must consider
yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.