8But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;
9Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him.
10For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.
11Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.
12For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;
13And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
