Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may abound?
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2By no means! We died to sin—how shall we live any longer in it?
Cross References
Romans 2:4Or do you despise the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
Romans 3:31Therefore do we nullify the law through faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
Romans 6:15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!
1 Peter 2:16as free, yet not using freedom as a cover for wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
Jude 1:4For certain men have crept in unawares, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, changing the grace of our God into licentiousness and denying the only Master God and our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Old and New Apostates
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 →