Romans 6:2
God forbid. For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
In Context
1What shall we say, then? shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
3Know you not that all we, who are baptized in Christ Jesus, are baptized in his death?
Cross References
Romans 5:11And not only so; but also we glory in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation.
Romans 7:4Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law, by the body of Christ; that you may belong to another, who is risen again from the dead, that we may bring forth fruit to God.
2 Corinthians 5:14For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead.
Galatians 6:14But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.
Colossians 3:3For you are dead; and your life is hid with 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 →