Romans 6:1
What are we to say, then? Are we to continue to sin, in order that God’s loving kindness may be multiplied?
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, so how can we go on living in it?
Cross References
Romans 2:4Or do you think lightly of his abundant kindness, patience, and forbearance, not realizing that his kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
Romans 3:31Do we, then, use this faith to abolish Law? Heaven forbid! No, we establish Law.
Romans 6:15What follows, then? Are we to sin because we are living under the reign of love and not of Law? Heaven forbid!
1 Peter 2:16Act as free people, yet not using your freedom as those do who make it a cloak for wickedness, but as Servants of God.
Jude 1:4For there have crept in among you certain godless people, whose sentence has long since been pronounced, and who make the mercy of God an excuse for profligacy, and disown our only lord and master, 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 →