Bible Strands
Romans 6:3
Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Paul to the Roman church, having just rejected the idea that grace licenses continued sin (6:1–2), now grounding his "died to sin" claim in the act of baptism.
The words — εἰς (eis), "into," is the preposition that does the theological work: not "with" or "for" but incorporation, a union that places the baptized inside the reality of Christ's death.
The thread — Galatians 3:27 uses the identical εἰς Χριστόν construction ("baptized into Christ"); Romans 6:8 and Galatians 2:20 echo the resulting "died with Christ" language.
Why it lands — It ties the believer's standing to a specific event and to Christ's death rather than his teaching, forcing the question: if you are in that death, what is your present life supposed to look like?
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The Greek words
King James Version
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Cross-references
- Galatians 3:27 For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
- Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
- Romans 6:8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.
- 1 Corinthians 12:13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
- Romans 6:4 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.
- 1 Peter 3:21 And this water symbolizes the baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God—through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
- Acts 2:38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
- Matthew 28:19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
- James 4:4 You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
- Acts 19:5 On hearing this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.