Romans 6:1
THAT then shall we say? Shall we abide in sin, that grace may abound?
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2God forbid. We who are dead to sin, how shall we still live therein?
Cross References
Romans 2:4Or despisest thou the riches of his kindness and patience and long-suffering, ignorant that this goodness of God is leading thee to repentance?
Romans 3:31Do we then abolish the law through faith? God forbid: but on the contrary, we give the law stability.
Romans 6:15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
1 Peter 2:16as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for wicked practices; but as being servants of God.
Jude 1:4For certain men have craftily introduced themselves, who were from of old proscribed for this condemnation, ungodly men, changing the grace of God into impurity, and denying our only sovereign 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 →