Romans 6:1
What then shall we say? Should we continue in sin that grace may abound?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2Far be the thought. We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?
Cross References
Romans 2:4or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance?
Romans 3:31Do we then make void law by faith? Far be the thought: [no,] but we establish law.
Romans 6:15What then? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought.
1 Peter 2:16as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen.
Jude 1:4For certain men have got in unnoticed, they who of old were marked out beforehand to this sentence, ungodly [persons], turning the grace of our God into dissoluteness, and denying 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 →