Romans 6:4
Through baptism we were buried with him in death so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father we too can live a new life.
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In Context
3Don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
5If we've become one with him in dying like he did, then we'll be raised like him too.
Cross References
Matthew 28:2All of a sudden there was a tremendous earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and rolled away the stone, and sat on it.
John 2:19Jesus replied, “Destroy this Temple, and in three days I'll raise it up!”
Acts 2:24But God raised him back to life, freeing him from the burden of death, because death did not have the power to keep him a prisoner.
Romans 6:9for we know that because Christ has been raised from the dead he won't ever die, because death has no longer any power over him.
Romans 7:6But now we've been set free from the law, and have died to what kept us in chains, so that we can serve in the newness of the spirit and not the old letter of the law.
Romans 12:1So I encourage you, my brothers and sisters, because of God's compassion for you, to dedicate your bodies as a living offering that is holy and pleasing to God. This is the logical way to worship.
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 →