Or, do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into union with Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?

For if we have grown into union with him by undergoing a death like his, of course we shall do so by being raised to life like him,

So you also must think of yourselves as dead to sin but alive to God, through union with Christ Jesus.

For the wages paid by sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.

So then there is no condemnation at all for those who are in union with Christ Jesus.

For the life-giving power of the Spirit through union with Christ Jesus has set us free from the power of sin and death.

nor anything above, nor anything below, nor anything else in all creation can separate us from the love of God that is ours in union with the Messiah Jesus, our Lord.

I am speaking the truth as one in union with Christ; it is no lie; and my conscience, enlightened by the Holy Spirit,

For, just as in the human body there is a union of many parts, and each part has its own function,

so we, though many, are united in one body through union with Christ, and we are individually parts of one another.

I know, and through my union with the Lord Jesus I have a clear conviction, that nothing is unclean in itself; that a thing is unclean only to the person who thinks it unclean.

It is, then, through my union with Christ Jesus that I have a proud confidence in my work for God.