Romans 6:1
What will we say then? We continue in sin so that grace may abound?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2May it not happen! How will we who died to sin, still live in it?
Cross References
Romans 2:4Or do thou despise the wealth of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God guides thee to repentance?
Romans 3:31Do we then make law void through faith? May it not happen! Instead, we establish law.
Romans 6:15What then? May we sin, because we are not under law but under grace? May it not happen!
1 Peter 2:16As free, and not having your freedom as a cover-up of evil, but as bondmen of God.
Jude 1:4For certain men have sneaked in, those written about formerly for this condemnation, irreverent men, perverting the grace of our God into licentiousness, and denying our only Master God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Matthew Henry on Romans 6:1
The apostle having at large asserted, opened, and proved, the great doctrine of justification by faith, for fear lest any should suck poison out of that sweet flower, and turn that grace of God into wantonness and licentiousness, he, with a like zeal, copiousness of expression, and cogency of argument, presses the absolute necessity of sanctification and a holy life, as the inseparable fruit and companion of justification; for, wherever Jesus Christ is made of God unto any soul righteousness, he is made of God… Read the whole commentary →