What question is Paul attempting to answer in this passage?  How would you summarize his answer to that question?

Paul says that we were baptized into Jesus’s death (6:3), and buried with Jesus by baptism (6:4), and united with Jesus in death (6:5).  What do you think these phrases mean?  How does Jesus’s death affect our lives as Christians today?

In 6:5, Paul says that just as we are united with Jesus in death, so too, we are also united with Jesus in his resurrection.  What do you think this means?  How does Jesus’s resurrection affect our lives as Christians today?

6:1-10 is largely comprised of imperative statements (what is true).  6:11-14 is largely comprised of imperative commands (what to do).  How would you summarize each of these two sections?  What is the relationship between them?

What does it mean to “present yourself to God as an instrument for righteousness”?  (6:13)  What does it look like, practically when we do this in our lives today?

What does it mean to be under sin?  What does it mean to be under grace?  (6:14)

In 6:14, Paul says that Christians are to live lives free from the power of sin - because they “are not under law but under grace”.  How does being “under law” give sin power and dominion in our lives?  How does being “under grace” free us from the power of sin?

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