Romans 6:2
Let it not be! We who died to sin—how will we still live in it?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
In Context
1What, then, will we say? Will we continue in sin that grace may abound?
3Are you ignorant that we, as many as were immersed into Christ Jesus, were immersed into His death?
Cross References
Psalms 119:104I have understanding from Your precepts, || Therefore I have hated every false path!
Romans 5:11And not only [so], but we are also boasting in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we now received the reconciliation;
Romans 7:4So that, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another’s, who was raised up out of the dead, that we might bear fruit to God;
2 Corinthians 5:14for the love of the Christ constrains us, having judged thus: that if one died for all, then the whole died,
Galatians 6:14And for me, let it not be—to glory, except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world;
Colossians 3:3for you died, and your life has been hid with the 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 →