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Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, Valentin de Boulogne

Romans 6:5

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Romans 6:5 (WEB)

For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;

Catechism · 4

"I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body"

  • §1006Article 11 · "I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body"Read at vatican.va

    “For those who die in Christ's grace it is a participation in the death of the Lord, so that they can also share his Resurrection.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 6:3-9; Phil 3:10-11.

Life in Christ

  • §1694Part Three · Life in ChristRead at vatican.va

    “Incorporated into Christ by Baptism, Christians are "dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus" and so participate in the life of the Risen Lord.” — Catechism footnote: Rom 6:11 and cf. 6:5; cf. Col 2:12.

Prayer in the Christian Life

  • §2565Section One · Prayer in the Christian LifeRead at vatican.va

    “This communion of life is always possible because, through Baptism, we have already been united with Christ.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 6:5.

The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit

  • §790Paragraph 2 · The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy SpiritRead at vatican.va

    “This is especially true of Baptism, which unites us to Christ's death and Resurrection, and the Eucharist, by which "really sharing in the body of the Lord, . . . we are taken up into communion with him and with one another."” — Catechism footnote: LG 7; cf. Rom 6:4-5; 1 Cor 12:13.

Fathers and councils · 13

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Cyril of Jerusalem

Ambrose of Milan

John Chrysostom

  • “Baptism is a Cross, and “our old man was crucified with [Him]” ( Rom. vi. 6 ), for we were “made conformable to the likeness of His death” ( Rom. vi. 5; Philip. iii. 10 ), and again, “we were buried therefore with Him by baptism into death.” ( Rom. vi. 4 .)” — the author cites it

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  • “To show that what we say is no conjecture, hear Paul saying, “We are buried with Him by Baptism into death”: and again, “Our old man is crucified with Him”: and again, “We have been planted together in the likeness of His death.” ( Rom. vi. 4, 5, 6.)” — the author cites it

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Leo the Great

  • “For if we have become united with the likeness of His death, we shall be also (with the likeness) of His resurrection,” and the rest which the Teacher of the Gentiles discusses further in recommending the sacrament of baptism: that it might be seen from the spirit of this…” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 3–5. Notice the support here given to the marginal alternative of the R.V., “united with,” instead of “united in” ( Lat. complantati similitudini,…

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Tertullian

Basil the Great

Augustine of Hippo

Clement of Alexandria

  • “He, in fulfilment of the precept, according to the Gospel, keeps the Lord’s day, when he abandons an evil disposition, and assumes that of the Gnostic, glorifying the Lord’s resurrection in himself.” — editor's note: [Rom. vi. 5. The original of Clement’s argument seems to me to imply that he is here speaking of the Paschal festival, and the true keeping of it by a moral…

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