Romans 6:2
It can not be. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
In Context
1What, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
3Know you not that as many of us as were immersed into Christ Jesus, were immersed into his death?
Cross References
Romans 5:11And not only so, but we rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Romans 7:4So then, my brethren, you, also, have died to the law, by the body of the Christ, in order that you may be married to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit to God.
2 Corinthians 5:14For the love of Christ constrains us, because we have this judgment―that if one died for all, then have all died:
Galatians 6:14But may I never boast save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Colossians 3:3for you are dead, and your life is hid 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 →