27For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
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But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? …
The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us(not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-92)The apostle having just before been speaking of the promise made to Abraham, and representing that as the rule of our justification, and not the law, lest they should think he did too much derogate from the law, and render it altogether useless, he thence takes occasion to discourse of the design and tendency of it, and to acquaint us for what purposes it was given. It might be asked, “If that pro…
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