Romans 6:4

We have been placed with him among the dead through baptism into death: so that as Christ came again from the dead by the glory of the Father, we, in the same way, might be living in new life.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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 Context

3Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death?

5For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again;

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Cross References

Matthew 28:2And there was a great earth-shock; for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, rolling back the stone, took his seat on it.

John 2:19And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.

Acts 2:24But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.

Romans 6:9Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him.

Romans 7:6But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

Romans 12:1For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.

Matthew Henry on Romans 6:2-23

On Sanctification. ( a. d. 58.) 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 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. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness… Read the whole commentary →

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