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Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Romans 6:3 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus 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 have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
  • Gal 2:20–21I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
  • Rom 6:8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
  • 1 Cor 12:13For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
  • Rom 6:4–5Therefore 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.
  • 1 Pet 3:21The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
  • Acts 2:38Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
  • Jas 4:4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
  • Matt 28:19Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
  • 1 Cor 9:13Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
  • Rom 7:1Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
  • Acts 19:5When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
  • Rom 6:16Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
  • 1 Cor 5:6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
  • 1 Cor 6:9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
  • Acts 8:16(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
  • 1 Cor 15:29Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?
  • 1 Cor 3:16Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
  • 2 Cor 13:5Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
  • 1 Cor 6:2–3Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
  • 1 Cor 6:15–16Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
  • 1 Cor 6:19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
  • 1 Cor 9:24Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

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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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