<p>6:9&nbsp;<em>Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead, dies no more-</em> &ldquo;We believe that we shall live with Him&rdquo; (6:8) because we know that Christ was raised from the dead. To believe that He rose from the dead is therefore no painless intellectual matter. If He rose, and if I really died with Him, then I shall for sure live with Him. Because He is me and I am Him; He in me and I in Him. This is what Paul is saying, amidst our own doubts and fears about our moral failures trying to shout him down.&nbsp;</p><p><i>Death no more has dominion over him</i>- If death and sin have no more dominion over Christ, they have no dominion over us, and therefore we are to live as if sin has no dominion over us (6:14).&nbsp;</p>