⁴ Therefore we have been ^(A)buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was ^(B)raised from the dead through the ^(C)glory of the Father, so we too might walk in ^(D)newness of life.

⁶ But now we have been ^(A)released from the Law, having ^(B)died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in ^(C)newness of ^(D)the ^[a]Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

² And do not ^(A)be conformed to ^(B)this ^[a]world, but be transformed by the ^(C)renewing of your mind, so that you may ^[b](D)prove what the will of God is, that which is good and ^[c]acceptable and perfect.

¹⁷ Therefore if anyone is ^(A)in Christ, ^[a]he is ^(B)a new creature; ^(C)the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

¹⁰ and have ^(A)put on the new self who is being ^[a](B)renewed to a true knowledge ^(C)according to the image of the One who ^(D)created him—