Romans 6:2
May it not happen! How will we who died to sin, still live in it?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
In Context
1What will we say then? We continue in sin so that grace may abound?
3Or are ye ignorant that as many as were immersed into Christ Jesus were immersed into his death?
Cross References
Psalms 119:104Through thy precepts I get understanding. Therefore I hate every FALSE way.
Romans 5:11And not only so, but also taking pride in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Romans 7:4Therefore, my brothers, ye also became dead to the law through the body of Christ in order for ye to become to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we would bear fruit to God.
2 Corinthians 5:14For the love of Christ holds us together, having judge this, that if one died for all, then all died.
Galatians 6:14But may it not be from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Colossians 3:3For ye died, and your life has been hidden with the Christ in God.
Matthew Henry on Romans 6:2-23
On Sanctification. ( a. d. 58.) 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness… Read the whole commentary →