Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Let us continue in sin, that grace may abound still more?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2God forbid! How shall we, who died to sin, live any longer in it?
Cross References
Romans 2:4Or dost thou despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God is leading thee to repentance?
Romans 3:31Do we then make void the Law through faith? Far be it! On the contrary, we establish the Law.
Romans 6:15What then? Are we to sin, because we are not under the Law, but under grace? God forbid!
1 Peter 2:16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as servants of God.
Jude 1:4For there have stealthily crept in certain men who were of old appointed beforehand for this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into wantonness, and denying the only Sovereign, and 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 →