5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
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That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; …
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: …
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-23)The apostle’s transition, which joins this discourse with the former, is observable: “ What shall we say then ? Rom. 6:1. What use shall we make of this sweet and comfortable doctrine? Shall we do evil that good may come, as some say we do? Rom. 3:8. Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound ? Shall we hence take encouragement to sin with so much the more boldness, because the more sin we com…
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