Romans 6:1
What, then, will we say? Will we continue in sin that grace may abound?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2Let it not be! We who died to sin—how will we still live in it?
Cross References
Romans 2:4Or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, do you despise, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to conversion?
Romans 3:31Do we then make law useless through faith? Let it not be! Indeed, we establish law.
Romans 6:15What then? Will we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be!
1 Peter 2:16as free, and not having freedom as the cloak of evil, but as servants of God;
Jude 1:4for there came in certain men stealthily, having been written beforehand to this judgment long ago, impious, perverting the grace of our God to licentiousness, and denying our only Master and 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 →