Romans 6:1-4
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
We who have been delivered (saved) from God’s wrath through Christ’s grace are certainly free from sin’s consequence, yet this is no license to willingly choose to continue sinning. Because we were immersed in Christ’s death, we count ourselves dead to sin as well. We died to our old self and have been resurrected into a new spiritual life with a heart of spiritual flesh in place of the old dead man’s heart of stone. This is why we do not pursue or excuse sin, but live the new life by following Him and conforming to His image. We do not sin more to get more forgiveness, for that is the error of Rome’s erroneous teaching of penance without consequence.
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