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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Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into union with Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death?

when in your baptism you were buried with him, and raised to life with him through your faith in the power of God who raised him from the dead.

If, then, you have been raised to life with Christ, set your hearts on the things that are where Christ is, above, seated at God's right hand.

Baptism, which corresponds to it, now saves you also (not as the mere removing of physical stain, but as the craving for a conscience right with God)??hrough the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

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And there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and went and rolled the stone back and sat upon it.

This, the first of the signs of his mission, Jesus showed at Cana in Galilee. By it he showed his greatness, and his disciples believed in him.

Jesus said to her, "Have I not promised you that if you will believe in me you will see the glory of God?"

Then, so mighty is his majesty, he will nerve you perfectly with strength for the cheerful exercise of endurance and forbearance in every situation,

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I use these familiar human terms because of the limitations of your nature. For just as you before gave up the parts of your bodies in slavery to vice and greater and greater license, you must now give them up in slavery to uprightness, which leads to consecration.

But now the Law no longer applies to us; we have died to what once controlled us, so that we can now serve in the new Spirit, not under the old letter.

I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship.

Let us live honorably, as in the light of day, not in carousing and drunkenness, or in immorality and indecency, or in quarreling and jealousy.

So if anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new being; the old state of things has passed away; there is a new state of things.

For neither circumcision nor the want of it is of any importance, but only a new creation.

So what I mean and insist upon in the Lord's name is this: You must no longer live like the heathen, with their frivolity of mind and darkened understanding.

For once you were sheer darkness, but now, as Christians, you are light itself. You must live like children of light,

Follow my example, brothers, all of you, and notice those who follow the pattern we have set you.

That is why, from the day I first heard of it, I have never given up praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full spiritual wisdom and insight, with a clear knowledge of what his will is,

Through your relation to him you have received not a physical circumcision, but a circumcision effected by Christ, in stripping you of your material nature,

and have put on that new self newly made in the likeness of its Creator, to know him fully.

You who are masters must treat your slaves justly and fairly, and remember that you have a Master too, in heaven.

Since Christ therefore has suffered in our physical nature, you must also arm yourselves with the same resolve. For he who suffers in his physical nature has done with sin,

Thus he has given us his precious and splendid promises so that through them you may escape the corrupting influences that exist in the world through passion, and come to share in the divine nature.

whoever says, "I am always in union with him" must live just as he lived.