Holy Baptism
Q53. What does such baptizing with water indicate?
It indicates that the Old Adam in us should by daily contrition and repentance be drowned and die with all sins and evil desires, and that a new man should daily emerge and arise to live before God in righteousness and purity forever.
Scripture Proofs — King James Version
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Romans 6:4–6
Colossians 3:9–10
Ephesians 4:22–24
“That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”
Read Luther’s expanded teaching
From the Large Catechism (1529)