Romans 6:2
By no means! We died to sin—how shall we live any longer in it?
English Majority Text (NT)
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 go on sinning so that grace may abound?
Cross References
Romans 5:11And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we received the reconciliation. 1 Death Through Adam, Life through Christ
Romans 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, so that we might bear fruit to God.
2 Corinthians 5:14For the love of Christ compels us, having concluded this: that if One died for all, then all died;
Galatians 6:14But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Colossians 3:3For you died, and your life has been hidden 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 →