Romans 6:2
Certainly not! How can we who have died to sin still live in it?
Text-Critical English NT
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? Should we continue in sin so that grace may abound?
Cross References
Romans 5:11Not only that, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Romans 7:4So then, my brothers, you also were put to death with respect to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we might bear fruit for God.
2 Corinthians 5:14For the love of Christ compels us, because we have concluded that if one died for all, then all have died.
Galatians 6:14But as for me, may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Colossians 3:3For you have 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 →