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By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
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Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
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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.
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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.
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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,[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin—