²⁷ For ^(A)as many of you as were baptized into Christ ^(B)have put on Christ.

¹⁴ But ^(A)put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and ^(B)make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

¹³ For ^(A)by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—^(B)whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and ^(C)have all been made to drink ^[a]into one Spirit.

¹⁰ and have put on the new man who ^(A)is renewed in knowledge ^(B)according to the image of Him who ^(C)created him,

³ Or do you not know that ^(A)as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus ^(B)were baptized into His death? ⁴ Therefore we were ^(C)buried with Him through baptism into death, that ^(D)just as Christ was raised from the dead by ^(E)the glory of the Father, ^(F)even so we also should walk in newness of life.

²⁴ and that you ^(A)put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

^21 (A)There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism ^(B)(not the removal of the filth of the flesh, ^(C)but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

³⁸ Then Peter said to them, ^(A)“Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the ^[a]remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁰ and you are complete in Him, who is the ^(A)head of all ^[a]principality and power.

Not Legalism but Christ

¹¹ In Him you were also ^(B)circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by ^(C)putting off the body ^[b]of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, ^12 (D)buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through ^(E)faith in the working of God, ^(F)who raised Him from the dead.