Romans 6:2

Formerly Dead To Sin, Now Alive In Christ

¹ What are we to say, then? Are we to continue to sin, in order that God's loving-kindness may be multiplied? ² Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, and how can we go on living in it? ³ Or can it be that you do not know that all of us, who were baptized into union with Christ Jesus, in our baptism shared his death?

Certainly Not

God Forbid

In Sin

By No Means

Not At All

No

Sin

Colossians 3:3

For you died, and your Life now lies hidden, with the Christ, in God.

1 Peter 2:24

And he 'himself carried our sins' in his own body to the cross, so that we might die to our sins, and live for righteousness. 'His bruising was your healing.'

Romans 7:4

And so with you, my Brothers; as far as the Law was concerned, you underwent death in the crucified body of the Christ, so that you might be united to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that our lives might bear fruit for God.

Galatians 2:19

I, indeed, through Law became dead to Law, in order to live for God.

Romans 3:1-4

What is the advantage, then, of being a Jew? or what is the good of circumcision?

Romans 5:11

And not only that, but we exult in God, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, through whom we have now obtained this reconciliation.

Romans 6:5-11

If we have become united with him by the act symbolic of his death, surely we shall also become united with him by the act symbolic of his resurrection.

Romans 7:6

But now we are set free from the Law, because we are dead to that which once kept us under restraint; and so we serve under new, spiritual conditions, and not under old, written regulations.

2 Corinthians 5:14-17

It is the love of the Christ which compels us, when we reflect that, as one died for all, therefore all died;

Galatians 6:14

But, for my part, may I never boast of anything except the cross of Jesus Christ, our Master, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Colossians 2:20

Since, with Christ, you became dead to the puerile teaching of this world, why do you submit, as though your life were still that of the world,

1 Peter 1:14

Be like obedient children; do not let your lives be shaped by the passions which once swayed you in the days of your ignorance,

1 Peter 4:1-3

Since, then, Christ suffered in body, arm yourselves with the same resolve as he; for he who has suffered in body has ceased to sin,

1 John 3:9

No one who has received the new Life from God lives sinfully, because the very nature of God dwells within him; and he cannot live in sin, because he has received the new Life from God.