The New Life in Christ

6 What should we say then?^(A) Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply?^{(B) 2} Absolutely not!^(C) How can we who died to sin^(D) still live in it? ³ Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized^(E) into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?^{(F) 4} Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death,^(G) in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead^(H) by the glory of the Father,^(I) so we too may walk in a new way^[a] of life.^{(J) 5} For if we have been joined with Him in the likeness of His death,^(K) we will certainly also be^[b] in the likeness of His resurrection. ⁶ For we know that our old self^[c](L) was crucified with Him^(M) in order that sin’s dominion over the body^[d] may be abolished,^(N) so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin, ⁷ since a person who has died^(O) is freed^[e] from sin’s claims.^{[f] 8} Now if we died with Christ,^(P) we believe that we will also live with Him, ⁹ because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead,^(Q) will not die again. Death no longer rules over Him.^(R)