Romans 6:2

Chas v'shalom! Vi-bahlt (since) we have died to Chet, how can we still live in it?

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

In Context

1What then shall we say? Are we to persist in Chet (sin) in order that the unmerited Chen v'Chesed Hashem might increase?

3Or do you lack da'as that all we who were given a mikveh mayim tevilah into Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua were given a tevilah into Moshiachʼs histalkus, into his mavet (death)?

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Cross References

Psalms 119:104Through Thy pikkudim I get understanding: 1 therefore I hate every orakh sheker. נ Nun 1

Romans 5:11Not only so, but we also glory in Hashem though Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua Adoneinu, through whom we have now received the ritztzuy (reconciliation, cessation of enmity, hostility between a wrathful holy G-d and sinful men).

Romans 7:4So then, Achim b'Moshiach, you also were put to death in relation to the Gezetz through the basar of Moshiach, + 7:4 Ps 16:9-10; Ro 8:3 in order that you might become anotherʼs, bound to Moshiach who was given Techiyah (Resurrection) from the Mesim, so that we might bear p'ri for Hashem.

2 Corinthians 5:14For the ahavah (love) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach controls us, because we have judged this, that one [Moshiach] died on behalf of all and therefore all died.

Galatians 6:14But may it not be to me to boast, except in HaEtz HaMoshiach + 6:14 Dt 21:23 Yehoshua Adoneinu, through whom the Olam Hazeh has become nevelah talui al HaEtz + 6:14 Dt 21:23 (corpse hanging on the tree) to me, and I have become a nevelah talui al HaEtz (corpse hanging on the tree) to the Olam Hazeh.

Colossians 3:3For you died and the Chayyim of you has become nistar + 3:3 Co 2:3 (hidden) with Moshiach in Hashem.

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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