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“Know ye not, that so many of us as were
baptized into Jesus Christ” — this is a
spiritual baptism — “were baptized into his
death?” So Paul says in verse 4, “Therefore
we are buried with him by baptism into
death: that like as Christ was raised up from
the dead by the glory of the Father, even so
we also should walk in newness of life.” In
view of all that He’s done, here’s what we
should do. Verse 5 says, “For if we have
been planted together in the likeness of
his death, we shall be also in the
likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this,
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that our old man is” — what’s the next
word? — “crucified with him, that the body
of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth
we should not serve sin.“
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