Book of Common Prayer

Don’t You Know That We Died With Christ In Order To Live a New Life With Him?

³ Or do you not know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? ⁴ Therefore we were buried-with Him through baptism into death in order that just as Christ arose from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of life.

For We Share In His Death To Sin And His Life With God

⁵ For if we have become united-with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection, ⁶ knowing this: that our old person was crucified-with Him in order that the body of sin might be done-away-with^[a], so that we no longer^[b] are-slaves^[c] to sin. ⁷ For the one having died has been declared-righteous from sin. ⁸ And if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live-with Him, ⁹ knowing that Christ, having arisen from the dead, dies no more. Death lords-over Him no longer. ¹⁰ For the death that He died, He died to sin once-for-all. But the life that He is living, He is living to God. ¹¹ So also you, be counting yourselves to be dead to sin but living to God in Christ Jesus.

So Don’t Let Sin Reign In You, But Present Yourselves To God As Alive From The Dead

¹² Therefore do not let sin be reigning in your mortal body so that you are obeying its desires, ¹³ nor be presenting your body-parts to sin as instruments^[d] of unrighteousness. But present yourselves to God as-if ^[e] being alive from the dead, and your body-parts to God as instruments of righteousness. ¹⁴ For sin shall not lord-over you— for you are not under the Law^[f], but under grace.

¹⁹ Therefore Jesus responded and was saying to them—

Jesus Responds Regarding His Work: The Son Does Only What The Father Does

“Truly, truly, I say to you— the Son can do nothing from Himself except^[a] something He sees the Father doing. For whatever things that One is doing, these things the Son is also likewise doing. ²⁰ For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself is doing. And He will show Him greater works than these, in order that you may marvel.

The Son Raises And Judges The Dead, And Thus Is Due Equal Honor With God

²¹ “For^[b] just as the Father raises the dead and gives-life-to them, so also the Son gives-life-to the ones whom He wishes^[c]. ²² For the Father does not even judge anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son, ²³ in order that all may honor the Son just-as^[d] they are honoring the Father. The one not honoring the Son is not honoring the Father having sent Him. ²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you that the one hearing My word and believing the One having sent Me has eternal life. And he does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.