Romans 6:1
What, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2It can not be. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?
Cross References
Romans 2:4Or, do you despise the riches of his goodness, and his forbearance, and his long suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
Romans 3:31Do we, then, make law void through the faith? It can not be. On the other hand, we establish law.
Romans 6:15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? It can not be.
1 Peter 2:16as being free, and yet not using your freedom as a cloak for malice, but as servants of God.
Jude 1:4For some men have stealthily entered in, who were long ago appointed to this condemnation; ungodly men, who pervert the grace of our God, and use it for lascivious purposes, and deny our only Sovereign and 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 →