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1 So what are we going to say? Should we continue sinning so grace will multiply?
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What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound?
2 Absolutely not! All of us died to sin. How can we still live in it?
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By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?
3 Or don't you know that all who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
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Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore, we were buried together with him through baptism into his death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too can walk in newness of life.
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Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
5 If we were united together in a death like his, we will also be united together 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 be united with him in a resurrection like his.
6 This is what we know: the person that we used to be was crucified with him in order to get rid of the corpse that had been controlled by sin. That way we wouldn't be slaves to sin anymore,
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We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.
7 because a person who has died has been freed from sin's power.
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For whoever has died is freed from sin.
8 But if we died with Christ, we have faith that we will also live with him.
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But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
9 We know that Christ has been raised from the dead and he will never die again. Death no longer has power over him.
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We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
10 He died to sin once and for all with his death, but he lives for God with his life.
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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 also should consider yourselves dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus.
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So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
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