Romans 6:2
Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, so how can we go on living in it?
Open English Bible (UK)
In The King James Version
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 119:104Insight I win through your precepts, therefore every false way I hate.
Romans 5:11And not only that, but we exult in God, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, through whom we have now obtained this reconciliation.
Romans 7:4And so with you, my friends; as far as the Law was concerned, you underwent death in the crucified body of the Christ, so that you might be united to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that our lives might bear fruit for God.
2 Corinthians 5:14It is the love of the Christ which compels us, when we reflect that, as one died for all, therefore all died;
Galatians 6:14But, for my part, may I never boast of anything except the cross of Jesus Christ, our Master, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Colossians 3:3For you died, and your life now lies hidden, 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 →