 And when you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions. Now you may not realize it, but it is God who is at work in baptism. In baptism, God unites us with Christ and washes away our sins, takes away that old man of sin, buries us with Christ, and raises us up from spiritual death to life.