Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
World English Bible
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
Cross References
Romans 2:4Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
Romans 3:31Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
Romans 6:15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
1 Peter 2:16Live as free people, yet not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
Jude 1:4For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, 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 →