2 By no means. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?

3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? were: or, are

4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. freed: Gr. justified