Romans 6:2
Far be the thought. We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?
Darby Translation
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? Should we continue in sin that grace may abound?
Cross References
Psalms 119:104From thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false path.
Romans 5:11And not only [that], but [we are] making our boast in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we have received the reconciliation.
Romans 7:4So that, my brethren, *ye* also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among [the] dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
2 Corinthians 5:14For the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged this: that one died for all, then all have died;
Galatians 6:14But far be it from me to boast save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom [the] world is crucified to me, and I to the world.
Colossians 3:3for ye have died, 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 →