² By no means! We are those who have died to sin;^(A) how can we live in it any longer?

¹⁴ For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.^(A)

²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ^(A) and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.^(B) The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God,^(C) who loved me^(D) and gave himself for me.^(E)

²⁰ Since you died with Christ^(A) to the elemental spiritual forces of this world,^(B) why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules:^(C)