1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?
3Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4We were buried therefore with him through baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
5For if we have become united with [him] in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of his resurrection;
6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;