Rom 6:1-4 | EE | STEP | Someone might say, ‘Perhaps we should continue to do wrong things. Then God can be kind to us in more and more ways.’

Romans 6:1-4

Sin does not rule us any longer

1 Someone might say, ‘Perhaps we should continue to do wrong things. Then God can be kind to us in more and more ways.’ 2 No! Certainly we should not do that! Sin does not rule our lives any longer. That old life is dead! So it is not right that we should continue to do wrong things. 3 Remember what your baptism shows: When they baptised you, it shows that you now are united with Christ Jesus. It also shows that, because Christ died, your old life also died. 4 Your baptism shows that they buried you, just like they buried Christ after his death. It is like you died with him and they buried you with him. Because of that, God will also raise us, just as he raised Christ from death. God, the Father, is so great and powerful that he raised Christ to a new life. That means that we also can live our lives in a new way. ^{▼▼6:4 Baptism shows that we are united with Christ in our spirits. In our spirits, we die with Christ and then we rise again, to live a new life. So, we have a new nature because of Christ. See Colossians 2:12.}