Death: Figurative of Regeneration

Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer? …

Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives? …

But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.

And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.

If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations: