Romans 6:1
So what shall we say? Should we remain in sin, so that grace may abound?
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In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2Let it not be so! For how can we who have died to sin still live in sin?
Cross References
Romans 2:4Or do you despise the riches of his goodness and patience and forbearance? Do you not know that the kindness of God is calling you to repentance?
Romans 3:31Are we then destroying the law through faith? Let it not be so! Instead, we are making the law stand.
Romans 6:15What is next? Should we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? Let it not be so!
1 Peter 2:16in an open manner, and not as if cloaking malice with liberty, but like servants of God.
Jude 1:4For certain men entered unnoticed, who were written of beforehand unto this judgment: impious persons who are transforming the grace of our God into self-indulgence, and who are denying both the sole Ruler 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 →