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Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Romans 6:3 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
  • BSB Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
  • NKJV Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
  • NASB Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?
  • NLT Or have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death?

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Quick answer

Baptism unites believers to Christ, including to His death. This means our old life under sin's reign has come to an end with Him.

Overview

Paul answers the charge that grace encourages sin by appealing to baptism, which signifies and seals our union with Christ. To be baptized into Christ is to be joined to His saving work, beginning with His death. Because we have died with Him, we cannot go on living as though sin still has rightful claim over us.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • Gal 3:27For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
  • Gal 2:20–21I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
  • Rom 6:8But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;
  • 1 Cor 12:13For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
  • Rom 6:4–5We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
  • 1 Pet 3:21This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you — not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
  • Acts 2:38Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
  • Jas 4:4You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
  • Matt 28:19Go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
  • 1 Cor 9:13Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
  • Rom 7:1Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?
  • Acts 19:5When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
  • Rom 6:16Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
  • 1 Cor 5:6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
  • 1 Cor 6:9Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
  • Acts 8:16for as yet he had fallen on none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of Christ Jesus.
  • 1 Cor 15:29Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren’t raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?
  • 1 Cor 3:16Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
  • 2 Cor 13:5Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? — unless indeed you are disqualified.
  • 1 Cor 6:2–3Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
  • 1 Cor 6:15–16Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
  • 1 Cor 6:19Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
  • 1 Cor 9:24Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

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Christ at the center

Paul unfolds the gospel in full: Christ our righteousness received by faith, the second Adam in whom many are made righteous, in whose death and resurrection we are buried and raised.

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