Sin does not reign in my mortal body. I have died to sin, therefore, how can I who has died to sin live in it any longer. I am baptized into Christ, I have been baptized into his death.  I have been buried, therefore, with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the father, I too can walk in newness of life.  Thank you, father, that today I walk in newness of life.

Since I have been united with Jesus, the Christ, in a death like he is, I shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. My old self was crucified with him, so that I am no longer enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin.  Now I believe that since I have died with Christ, I will also live with him. So I reckon myself dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.