3 Or are you unaware that as many as have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?

4 We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.

5 For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection.

6 We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

7 For anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.

— Romans 6:3-8

3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,

5 He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

6 This is the Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

7 so that, having been justified by His grace, we would become heirs with the hope of eternal life.

— Titus 3:3-7

Thoughts on Today’s Reading

Grace, mercy and love from Christ to you.

When we witness a life where grace flows through every interaction with forgiveness comes easily, we admire that kind of life liberated from sin through grace. In Romans 6, Paul takes us into one of the most powerful truths of the gospel that we are no longer slaves to sin. For those in Christ, freedom isn’t just a concept. It’s a reality that transforms how we live, how we think, and how we understand ourselves.

We were therefore buried with Christ through baptism into Jesus’s death. And our being buried with Jesus is not the end. Paul also writes just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life in Christ’s resurrection in Romans 6:4. This new life that Paul speaks of isn’t just a better version of our old selves. It’s a life made brand new by the mighty power of Jesus’s death and resurrection.