Thematic Bible: Figurative of regeneration


Thematic Bible



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And if Christ is in you, the body indeed is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he who raised up Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

God forbid! How shall we, who died to sin, live any longer in it? Are ye ignorant, that all of us who were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death? We then by this baptism into his death were buried with him; that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. read more.
For if we have been made completely like him in his death, we shall be made like him in his resurrection also; knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we might no longer be in slavery to sin; for he that hath died hath been set free from sin. And if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him; since we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dieth no more; death hath dominion over him no longer. For in that he died, he died to sin once for all; but in that he liveth, he liveth to God. Thus do ye too consider yourselves as dead to sin, but alive to God, through Jesus Christ.

Know ye not, brethren, (for I am speaking to those who are acquainted with the Law,) that the Law hath dominion over a man only as long as he liveth? For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is released from the law which bound her to him. So then, if while her husband is living she connect herself with another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband die, she is no longer bound by that law, so that she will not be an adulteress, though she connect herself with another man. read more.
So then, my brethren, ye also were slain to the Law through the body of Christ, that ye might be connected with another, even with him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the affections of sins, which were through the Law, were working in our members to bear fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, that we might serve in the new life of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the letter. What then shall we say? Is the Law sin? God forbid! But I should not have known sin, except by the Law; for I should not have known sinful desire, unless the Law had said, "Thou shalt not covet." But sin, seizing the opportunity, wrought in me by means of the commandment all manner of sinful desire; for without the Law sin is dead. And I, apart from the Law, was once alive; but when the commandment came, sin came to life again, and I died; and the very commandment whose design was life, I found to issue in death.