Romans 6:4

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Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

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Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

Having been buried with Him in baptism, you were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

So if you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God.

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the pledge of a good conscience toward God) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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Suddenly there was a violent earthquake, because an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and approached the tomb. He rolled back the stone and was sitting on it.

Jesus performed this first sign in Cana of Galilee. He displayed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.

Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”

May you be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience, with joy

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because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to moral impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.

But now we have been released from the law, since we have died to what held us, so that we may serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old letter of the law.

Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship.

Let us walk with decency, as in the daylight: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come.

For both circumcision and uncircumcision mean nothing; what matters instead is a new creation.

Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light—

Join in imitating me, brothers, and observe those who live according to the example you have in us.

For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

You were also circumcised in Him with a circumcision not done with hands, by putting off the body of flesh, in the circumcision of the Messiah.

and have put on the new self. You are being renewed in knowledge according to the image of your Creator.

Masters, supply your slaves with what is right and fair, since you know that you too have a Master in heaven.

Therefore, since Christ suffered in the flesh, equip yourselves also with the same resolve—because the one who suffered in the flesh has finished with sin—

By these He has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desires.

The one who says he remains in Him should walk just as He walked.