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THE LIFE-RESURRECTION THEME
A STUDY CHART OF CONVERSION-BAPTISM PARALLELS

The student of the Bible realizes that the Pauline letters contain scattered references to conversion, salvation, death to sin, baptism, resurrection, and new life. This death-resurrection motif is prominent in Romans, Galatians, Ephesians, and Colossians. It is instructive to see how all these passages complement each other and produce a unified view of conversion to Christ, especially as it relates to baptism. Notice how one passage parallels and fills in another passage in the columns below.

Romans 6:3
Galatians 3:27
   
All of us All of you
who have been baptized who were baptized
into Christ Jesus into Christ
have been baptized  
into His death  
  have clothed yourselves
  with Christ
   
Romans 6:4 Colossians 2:12a
   
Therefore we  
have been having been
buried with Him buried with Him
through baptism in baptism
into death  
   
Colossians 2:12b Ephesians 2:5
   
in which you were also  
raised up with Him raised us up with Him
through faith  
in the working of God,  
who raised Him from the dead.  
   
Romans 6:4  
   
in order that as  
Christ was raised from the dead  
through the glory of the Father  
so we too might  
walk in newness of life.  
   
Romans 6:5  
   
For if we have become united with Him  
in the likeness of His death,  
certainly we shall be also  
in the likeness of His resurrection,  
   
Colossians 3:1  
   
If then you have been raised up with Christ,  
keep seeking the things above,  
where Christ is,  
seated at the right hand of God.  
   
Colossians 2:13 Ephesians 2:5
   
When you were dead When we were dead
in your transgressions in our transgressions,
and the uncircumcision  
of your flesh,  
He made you alive made us alive
together with Him, together with Christ
having forgiven us  
all our transgressions  
   
Colossians 2:11 Romans 6:6
   
and in Him  
you were also circumcised  
with a circumcision  
made without hands,  
  knowing this,
  that our old self
  was crucified with Him,
  that
in the removal of  
the body of the flesh our body of sin
by the circumcision of Christ might be done away with,
   
  Romans 6:7
   
  that we should no longer
  be slaves to sin;
  for he who has died
  is freed from sin.
   
Galatians 5:24  
   
Now those who belong to Christ Jesus  
have crucified the flesh  
with its passions and desires.  
   
Galatians 2:20  
   
I have been crucified with Christ;  
and it is no longer I who live,  
but Christ lives in me;  
and the life which I now live in the flesh  
I live by faith in the Son of God,  
who loved me,  
and delivered Himself up for me.  

Note: The NASB was used in this study of comparisons.

Richard Hollerman