[What Ought to Be the Character of the Initiated.]
VII. Beloved, be it known to you that those who are baptized into the death of our Lord Jesus are obliged to go on no longer in sin; for as those who are dead cannot work wickedness any longer, so those who are dead with Christ cannot practice wickedness. We do not therefore believe, brethren, that any one who has received the washing of life continues in the practice of the licentious acts of transgressors. Now he who sins after his baptism, unless he repent and forsake his sins, shall be condemned to hell-fire.
[7] Γνωστὸν δὲ ἔστω ὑμῖν, ἀγαπητοί, ὅτι οἱ βαπτισθέντες εἰς τὸν θάνατον τοῦ Κυρίου Ἰησοῦ, οὐκέτι ὀφείλουσιν ἁμαρτάνειν οἱ τοιοῦτοι. Ὡς γὰρ οἱ ἀποθανόντες ἀνενέργητοι πρὸς ἁμαρτίαν τυγχάνουσιν, οὕτως καὶ οἱ συναποθανόντες τῷ Χριστῷ ἄπρακτοι πρὸς ἁμαρτίαν. Οὐ πιστεύομεν οὖν, ἀδελφοί, λουσάμενόν τινα τὸ τῆς ζωῆς λουτρὸν ἔτι πράσσειν τὰ τῶν ἀνόμων ἀσελγήματα: ὁ δὲ ἁμαρτήσας μετὰ τὸ βάπτισμα, οὗτος, ἐὰν μὴ μεταγνῷ καὶ παύσηται τοῦ πλημμελεῖν, εἰς γέενναν κατακριθήσεται.