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Romans 6
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
(8,6,8,6)
And shall we then go on to sin,
that grace may more abound?
Great God, forbid that such a thought
should in our breast be found!
When to the sacred font we came,
did not the rite proclaim,
That, washed from sin, and all its stains,
new creatures we became?
With Christ the Lord we died to sin;
with him to life we rise,
To life, which now begun on earth,
is perfect in the skies.
Too long enthralled to Satan’s sway,
we now are slaves no more;
For Christ hath vanquished death and sin,
our freedom to restore.
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