For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
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Baptism teaches the necessity of dying to sin, and being as it were buried from all ungodly and unholy pursuits, and of rising to walk with God in newness of life. Unholy professors may have had the outward sign of a death to sin, and a new birth to righteousness, but they never passed from the family of Satan to that of God.