²⁵ Who was betrayed and put to death because of our misdeeds and was raised to secure our justification (our ^[a]acquittal), [making our account balance and absolving us from all guilt before God].

³ For [as far as this world is concerned] you have died, and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God.

⁶ And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together [giving us ^[a]joint seating with Him] in the heavenly sphere [by virtue of our being] in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One).