Romans 6:1
What shall we say, then? shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2God forbid. For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?
Cross References
Romans 2:4Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and patience, and longsuffering? Knowest thou not, that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?
Romans 3:31Do we, then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid: but we establish the law.
Romans 6:15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
1 Peter 2:16As free, and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.
Jude 1:4For certain men are secretly entered in, (who were written of long ago unto this judgment,) ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness, and denying the only sovereign 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 →