Romans 6:2
Of course not! How can we who died to sin keep on living in it?
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
In Context
1So what shall we say? Shall we continue in the sin so that the grace may abound?
Cross References
Romans 5:11No wonder we rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation!
Romans 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also were put to death to the law through the body of the Christ so as to belong to another—to Him who was raised from the dead—so that we should produce fruit to God.
2 Corinthians 5:14For Christ's love impels us, having concluded this: if One died for all it follows that all died;
Galatians 6:14But as for me, may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Colossians 3:3because 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 →