| Geneva Study Bible Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: People's New Testament 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, etc. This fact has been established. We have been baptized into his death, and are partakers of it. We shall also live with him. Then, having died with him, we have risen with him from the symbolical burial to a new life. Wesley's Notes 6:8 Dead with Christ - Conformed to his death, by dying to sin. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 8. Now if we be dead-"if we died." with Christ, &c.-See on [2204]Ro 6:5. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 6:3-10 Baptism teaches the necessity of dying to sin, and being as it were buried from all ungodly and unholy pursuits, and of rising to walk with God in newness of life. Unholy professors may have had the outward sign of a death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness, but they never passed from the family of Satan to that of God. The corrupt nature, called the old man, because derived from our first father Adam, is crucified with Christ, in every true believer, by the grace derived from the cross. It is weakened and in a dying state, though it yet struggles for life, and even for victory. But the whole body of sin, whatever is not according to the holy law of God, must be done away, so that the believer may no more be the slave of sin, but live to God, and find happiness in his service. | 
