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NASB | Romans 6:4 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. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 6:4 We have therefore been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory and power of the Father, we too might walk habitually in newness of life [abandoning our old ways]. |
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Bible Note: Greetings The Bible is Right! May I respectfully disagree with the following statement? "If we look at this text in it context, we will see the steps that lead to a new life." The last phrase does not decribe the end result of a process (i.e. - baptism produces new life), but rather is describes the kind of life we should life as a result of what Christ has done for us in salvation. The whole context of the passage concerns a believers relationship to sin. The question is asked over and over again, "How can we who have died with and been raised with Christ continue to live in sin?" So, Rom. 6:4 is not saying that baptism produces new life. It is saying that we were buried with Him so that we could live a different kind of life - one in which we are no longer slaves to sin. The verb 'walking' is used three other times in Romans and they also all refer to the kind of life we are to live as Christians, not to the New Birth. 1) Rom. 8:4 - "in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not LIVE according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit." 2) Rom. 13:13 - "Let us BEHAVE decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy." 3) Rom. 14:15 - "If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer ACTING in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died." So, Rom. 6:4 is not teaching that we are saved by being baptized. It is simply teaching that the truths behind baptism mandate a new kind of life, not one ruled by sin, since we are supposed to have died to sin. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |