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Certainly not! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
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Or don`t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
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We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
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For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
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knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.
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For he who has died has been freed from sin.
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But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;
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knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!
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For the death that he died, he died to sin once; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.
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Thus also consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Therefore don`t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
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Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
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For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
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What then? Will we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!