Were baptized into Christ (εβαπτισθημεν εις Χριστον). First aorist passive indicative of βαπτιζω. Better, "were baptized unto Chri…

Know ye not. This is a further appeal to the Christian profession and the principles involved in it, in answer to the objection. The simpl…

Do you not know?—It should be, as in the Greek, Or do you not know? Do you not admit this principle; or am I to suppose t…

Do you not know that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

If we are in Christ at all, we a…

The explanation of how this death to sin occurred follows immediately (vv.3–4): by being “baptized into Christ Jesus.” What is being described is a…

Know ye not, etc. What he intimated in the last verse—that Christ destroys sin in his people—he proves here by mentioning the eff…

Know you not that so many of us as ,
etc.] You must know this, you cannot be ignorant of it, that whoever

were b…

Baptism teaches the nece ity of dying to sin, and being, so to speak, buried from all ungodly and unholy pursuits, and of rising to walk with God i…

1. After showing that it is through Christ’s grace that we are freed from the sin of our first parent and from the sin that abounded because…