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2 No! We died to our old sinful lives, so how can we continue living with sin?
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By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
3 Did you forget that all of us became part of Christ when we were baptized? We shared his death in our baptism.
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Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 When we were baptized, we were buried with Christ and shared his death. So, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the wonderful power of the Father, we also can live a new life.
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We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
5 Christ died, and we have been joined with him by dying too. So we will also be joined with him by rising from the dead as he did.
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For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.
6 We know that our old life died with Christ on the cross so that our sinful selves would have no power over us and we would not be slaves to sin.
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For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—
7 Anyone who has died is made free from sin's control.
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because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
8 If we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him.
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Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
9 Christ was raised from the dead, and we know that he cannot die again. Death has no power over him now.
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For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.
10 Yes, when Christ died, he died to defeat the power of sin one time -- enough for all time. He now has a new life, and his new life is with God.
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The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.
11 In the same way, you should see yourselves as being dead to the power of sin and alive with God through Christ Jesus.
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In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
12 So, do not let sin control your life here on earth so that you do what your sinful self wants to do.
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Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
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