Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into union with the Messiah Jesus were 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 let it be with you-regard yourselves as dead to sin, but as living for God, through union with Christ Jesus.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God [that is, His remarkable, overwhelming gift of grace to believers] is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in union with the Messiah Jesus.

For through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life- giving Spirit has set you free from the Law 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, by our union in Christ, many though we are, form but one body, and individually we are related one to another as its parts.

As one who lives in union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am certain that in its own nature no food is 'impure'; but if people regard any food as impure, to them it is.

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