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Sin does not rule us any longer

Someone might say, ‘Perhaps we should continue to do wrong things. Then God can be kind to us in more and more ways.’ No! Certainly we should not do that! Sin does not rule our lives any longer. That old life is dead! So it is not right that we should continue to do wrong things. Remember what your baptism shows: When they baptized you, it shows that you are united with Christ Jesus. It also shows that, because Christ died, your old life also died.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 6:3 Baptism shows that we are united with Christ in our spirits. In our spirits, we die with Christ and then we rise again, to live a new life. So we have a new nature because of Christ. See Colossians 2:12.