Romans 6:1
What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?
Cross References
Romans 2:4Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?
Romans 3:31Do we, then, through faith make the law of no effect? in no way: but we make it clear that the law is important.
Romans 6:15What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.
1 Peter 2:16As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;
Jude 1:4For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master 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 →