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.
8 If we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
9 We know that Christ, who was brought back to life, will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him.
10 When he died, he died once and for all to sin’s power. But now he lives, and he lives for God.