Romans 6:2
Far be it! How shall we who died to sin, live any longer therein?
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
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? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
3Know ye not, that all we who were immersed into Jesus Christ were immersed into his death?
Cross References
Romans 5:11and not only so, but also rejoicing in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Romans 7:4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, in order that ye should be married to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit to God.
2 Corinthians 5:14For the love of Christ constrains us; because we thus judged, that if one died for all, then they all died.
Galatians 6:14But far be it from me to glory, 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 died, 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 →