Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Shall we continue still in sinne, that grace may abounde? God forbid.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2Howe shall we, that are dead to sinne, liue yet therein?
Cross References
Romans 2:4Or despisest thou the riches of his bountifulnesse, and patience, and long sufferance, not knowing that the bountifulnesse of God leadeth thee to repentance?
Romans 3:31Doe we then make the Lawe of none effect through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the Lawe.
Romans 6:15What then? shall we sinne, because we are not vnder the Law, but vnder grace? God forbid.
1 Peter 2:16As free, and not as hauing the libertie for a cloke of maliciousnesse, but as the seruauntes of God.
Jude 1:4For there are certaine men crept in, which were before of olde ordeined to this condemnation: vngodly men they are which turne the grace of our God into wantonnesse, and denie God the onely Lord, and our Lord Iesus 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 →