Romans 6:2
God forbid! How shall we, who died to sin, live any longer in it?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
In Context
1What shall we say then? Let us continue in sin, that grace may abound still more?
3Are ye ignorant, that all of us who were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death?
Cross References
Psalms 119:104From thy precepts I learn wisdom; Therefore do I hate every false way.
Romans 5:11and not this only, but also having joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Romans 7:4So then, my brethren, ye also were slain to the Law through the body of Christ, that ye might be connected with another, even with him who was raised from the dead, that we might bear fruit to God.
2 Corinthians 5:14For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judged, that if one died for all, then all died;
Galatians 6:14But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.
Colossians 3:3For ye died, and your life is 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 →