Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
Parallel translations
- WEB Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
- KJV Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ 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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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.
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- Gal 3:27For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
- Gal 2:20–21I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
- Rom 6:8Now 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, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
- Rom 6:4–5We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.
- 1 Pet 3:21And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
- Acts 2:38Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
- Jas 4:4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
- Matt 28:19Therefore go 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 9:13Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?
- Rom 7:1Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?
- Acts 19:5On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
- Rom 6:16Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?
- 1 Cor 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
- 1 Cor 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
- Acts 8:16For the Holy Spirit had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.
- 1 Cor 15:29If these things are not so, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?
- 1 Cor 3:16Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
- 2 Cor 13:5Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you actually fail the test?
- 1 Cor 6:2–3Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?
- 1 Cor 6:15–16Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
- 1 Cor 6:19Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
- 1 Cor 9:24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to take the prize.
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