United with Christ

Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized

into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?

Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism

into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through

the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His

death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,

knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, in order that

our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no

longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin. 

Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we whall also

live with Him, knowing that Christ having been raised from the

dead, is never to die again; death is no longer is master over Him. 

For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all;

but the life that He lives, He lives to God.  Even so consider

yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:3-11