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1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?
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What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
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By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
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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 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.
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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 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.
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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 selfwas 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.
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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 For one who has died has been set free from sin.
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because anyone 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.
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Now if we 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.
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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 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to 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 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
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In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
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