Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
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Interpretation
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.
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This thought runs through Romans 6:3-7.