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^(C1)What shall we say then? Are we to ^(C2)continue in sin so that grace may increase?

^(F1)(C1)Far from it! How shall we who ^(C2)died to sin still live in it?

Or do you not know that all of us who have been ^(C1)baptized into ^(C2)Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?

Therefore we have been ^(C1)buried with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was ^(C2)raised from the dead through the ^(C3)glory of the Father, so we too may walk in ^(C4)newness of life.

For ^(C1)if we have become ^(F1)united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be ^(F2)in the likeness of His resurrection,

knowing this, that our ^(C1)old ^(F1)self was ^(C2)crucified with Him, in order that our ^(C3)body of sin might be ^(F2)done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;

for ^(C1)the one who has died is ^(F1)freed from sin.

Now ^(C1)if we have died with Christ, we believe that ^(C2)we shall also live with Him,

knowing that Christ, having been ^(C1)raised from the dead, ^(F1)is never to die again; ^(C2)death no longer is master over Him.

For ^(F1)the death that He died, He died to sin once for all time; but ^(F2)the life that He lives, He lives to ^(F3)God.

So you too, consider yourselves to be ^(C1)dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Therefore sin is not to ^(C1)reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,