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1 What shall we say then? Shall we 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 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer 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 Or do you not know that as many of us as were 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 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should 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 together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection,
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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 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of 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 he who has died has been freed from sin.
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because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,
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Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. 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.
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