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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Surely you know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death!

when you were buried with him in your baptism and thereby raised with him as you believed in the power of the God who raised him from the dead.

Since then you have been raised with Christ, aim at what is above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God;

Baptism, the counterpart of that, saves you to-day (not the mere washing of dirt from the flesh but the prayer for a clean conscience before God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ

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But a great earthquake took place; an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and went and rolled away the boulder and sat on it.

Jesus performed this, the first of his Signs, at Cana in Galilee, thereby displaying his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

"Did I not tell you," said Jesus, "if you will only believe, you shall see the glory of God?"

May his glorious might nerve you with full power to endure and to be patient cheerfully, whatever comes,

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(I use this human analogy to bring the truth home to your weak nature.) As you once dedicated your members to the service of vice and lawlessness, so now dedicate them to the service of righteousness that means consecration.

but now we are done with the Law, we have died to what once held us, so that we can serve in a new way, not under the written code as of old but in the Spirit.

Well then, my brothers, I appeal to you by all the mercy of God to dedicate your bodies as a living sacrifice, consecrated and acceptable to God; that is your cult, a spiritual rite.

let us live decorously as in the open light of day ??no revelry or bouts of drinking, no debauchery or sensuality, no quarrelling or jealousy.

There is a new creation whenever a man comes to be in Christ; what is old is gone, the new has come.

For what counts is neither circumcision nor uncircumcision, it is the new creation.

Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,

For while once upon a time you were darkness, now in the Lord you are light; lead the life of those who are children of the light

Copy me, brothers, one and all of you, and notice those who live by the example you get from me.

Hence, from the day we heard of it, we have never ceased to pray for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and insight,

in him you have been circumcised with no material circumcision that cuts flesh from the body, but with Christ's own circumcision,

and put on the new nature which is renewed in the likeness of its Creator for the knowledge of him.

Masters, treat your servants justly and fairly; remember you have a Master of your own in heaven.

Well, as Christ has suffered for us in the flesh, let this very conviction that he who has suffered in the flesh gets quit of sin,

he who says he 'remains in him' ought to live as he lived.