If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is
not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness.
- I John 1:8,9
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may
abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ
Jesus were baptized into his death? We were 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, we too might walk in
newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death
like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection
like his. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order
that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would
no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set
free from sin. Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we
will also live with him. We know that Christ being raised from the
dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he
lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to
sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
-Romans 6:1-11
