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We 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.
Romans 6:4 · World English Bible
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  • KJV Therefore 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.
  • BSB We 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.
  • NKJV Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
  • NASB Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life.
  • NLT For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.

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Quick answer

In baptism we are buried with Christ so that, as He was raised, we too might live a new kind of life. The same power that raised Jesus now governs the believer's conduct.

Overview

The imagery of burial underscores the decisive end of the old life of sin. Christ's resurrection 'through the glory of the Father' becomes the pattern and source of the believer's transformed walk. Thus the gospel does not merely forgive; it raises us to 'newness of life' in present, daily obedience.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 31

  • 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
  • Col 3:10and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
  • Eph 4:22–24that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
  • Rom 7:6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
  • 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,
  • Rom 6:9knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him!
  • 2 Cor 13:4For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.
  • Rom 6:3Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
  • Rom 13:13–14Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
  • 2 Pet 1:4–9by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.
  • 1 Jn 2:6he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.
  • Col 2:11–13in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;
  • Col 3:1–3If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
  • Rom 8:11But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
  • Gal 6:15–16For in Christ Jesus neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
  • 1 Cor 6:14Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.
  • Phil 3:17–18Brothers, be imitators together of me, and note those who walk this way, even as you have us for an example.
  • Eph 4:17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
  • 1 Pet 4:1–2Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;
  • Rom 6:19I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
  • John 11:40Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”
  • Rom 12:1–2Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
  • Eph 1:19–20and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
  • Acts 2:24whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
  • Col 1:9–12For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
  • Eph 2:5–6even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
  • Eph 5:8For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
  • John 2:19–20Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
  • Col 4:1Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven.
  • John 2:11This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
  • Matt 28:2–3Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it.

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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.

How Romans 6:4 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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