Romans 6:2
May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
In Context
1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
3Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptised into Christ Jesus were baptised into his death?
Cross References
Psalms 119:104Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
Romans 5:11Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Romans 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
2 Corinthians 5:14For the love of Christ compels us; because we judge thus: that one died for all, therefore all died.
Galatians 6:14But far be it from me to 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 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 →