与基督同死同活

那么,我们该怎么说呢?我们可以继续犯罪,使恩典显得更丰富吗? 绝不可以!我们既然向罪死了,岂可继续活在罪中? 难道你们不知道,我们受洗归属基督耶稣是和祂一同死吗? 我们借着洗礼和祂一同死了,埋葬了,这样我们的一举一动可以有新生命的样式,正如基督借着父的荣耀从死里复活一样。

如果我们和基督一同死了,也必和祂一同复活。 我们知道,我们的旧人已经和祂一同钉在十字架上,使辖制我们身体的罪失去力量,使我们不再做罪的奴隶。 因为人一旦死了,便脱离了罪。

如果我们与基督同死,相信也必与祂同活。 因为我们知道,基督既然从死里复活了,就不会再死,死亡也不能再控制祂。 10 祂死,是向罪死,只死一次;祂活,却是向上帝永远活着。 11 这样,你们应当看自己是向罪死了,但向上帝则看自己是活在基督耶稣里。

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Dead to Sin, Alive in Christ

What shall we say, then?(A) Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?(B) By no means! We are those who have died to sin;(C) how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized(D) into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death(E) in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead(F) through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.(G)

For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.(H) For we know that our old self(I) was crucified with him(J) so that the body ruled by sin(K) might be done away with,[a] that we should no longer be slaves to sin(L) because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.(M)

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.(N) For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead,(O) he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.(P) 10 The death he died, he died to sin(Q) once for all;(R) but the life he lives, he lives to God.

11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin(S) but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 6:6 Or be rendered powerless