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Romans 6:15

What follows, then? Are we to sin because we are living under the reign of love and not of Law? Heaven forbid!

Open English Bible (US)

In The King James Version

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

In Context

14For sin will not lord it over you. You are living under the reign, not of Law, but of love.

16Surely you know that when you offer yourselves as servants, to obey anyone, you are the servants of the person whom you obey, whether the service be a service to sin which leads to death, or a service to duty which leads to righteousness.

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Cross References

Romans 6:1What are we to say, then? Are we to continue to sin, in order that God’s loving kindness may be multiplied?

2 Corinthians 7:1With these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that pollutes either body or spirit, and, in deepest respect for God, aim at perfect holiness.

Ephesians 2:8For it is by God’s loving kindness that you have been saved, through your faith. It is not due to yourselves; the gift is God’s.

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 6:2-23

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 →

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