Romans 6:2
Of course not! Since we're already dead to sin, how can we continue to live in sin?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
In Context
1So what's our response? Should we continue to sin so we can have even more grace?
3Don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Cross References
Psalms 119:104I gain understanding from what you say, so I hate any way of life that's just a lie.
Romans 5:11In addition to this we now celebrate what God has done through our Lord Jesus Christ to reconcile us and make us his friends.
Romans 7:4In the same way, my friends, you've become dead to the law through the body of Christ, and so now you belong to someone else—Christ, who was raised from the dead so that we could live productive lives for God.
2 Corinthians 5:14Christ's love urges us on, because we're absolutely sure that he died for everyone, and so everyone died.
Galatians 6:14May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Through this cross, the world has been crucified to me, and I've been crucified as far as the world is concerned.
Colossians 3:3You died, and your life is kept safe 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 →