We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? — Union with Christ through baptism is described as a death to sin's dominion, not merely to individual sins; Paul appeals to the indicative reality of the believer's status (nous, "we know") before issuing the imperative. The rhetorical μή γένοιτο underscores that death to sin is not hypothetical but constitutive of Christian existence. Baptism is corporate and mystical incorporation into Christ's death.

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