1 What should we say then? Should we continue to sin so that God’s kindness will increase?
2 That’s unthinkable! As far as sin is concerned, we have died. So how can we still live under sin’s influence?
3 Don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 When we were baptized into his death, we were placed into the tomb with him. As Christ was brought back from death to life by the glorious power of the Father, so we, too, should live a new kind of life.
5 If we’ve become united with him in a death like his, certainly we will also be united with him when we come back to life as he did.
6 We know that the person we used to be was crucified with him to put an end to sin in our bodies. Because of this we are no longer slaves to sin.
7 The person who has died has been freed from sin.