Romans 6:1
So what shall we say? Shall we continue in the sin so that the grace may abound?
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2Of course not! How can we who died to sin keep on living in it?
Cross References
Romans 2:4Or do you scorn the riches of His kindness, tolerance and longsuffering, not recognizing that the goodness of God is leading you toward repentance?
Romans 3:31Do we then nullify law through the Faith? Of course not! Rather, we uphold law.
Romans 6:15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Of course not!
1 Peter 2:16as free (not using the freedom as a cover for evil), yet as slaves of God.
Jude 1:4Because certain men, who were marked out for this condemnation long ago, have sneaked in; they are godless, perverting the grace of our God into licentiousness and denying the only Sovereign God, even our 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 →