Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?
Cross References
Romans 2:4Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
Romans 3:31Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.
Romans 6:15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.
1 Peter 2:16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
Jude 1:4For there are certain men crept in privily, [even] they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, 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 →