“Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”
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 live a new life. — Baptism mirrors Christ's death and resurrection; burial in the water and emergence enact the death of the old self and birth of the new creation. The Father's δόξα (doxa, "glory") raised Christ—the same divine power available to believers through participation. The new life (καινότης ζωῆς, kainotēs zōēs) is not moral self-improvement but eschatological newness, resurrection existence here and now.
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