1. WHAT SHALL we say [to all this]? Are we to remain in sin in order that God's grace (favor and mercy) may multiply and overflow?
2. Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
3. Are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
4. We were buried therefore with Him by the baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious [power] of the Father, so we too might [habitually] live and behave in newness of life.