Romans 6:1
What shall we then say? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2Far be it: for if we are persons that have died to sin, how can we again live in it?
Cross References
Romans 2:4Or wilt thou abuse the riches of his benevolence, and his long suffering, and the opportunity which he giveth thee? And dost thou not know, that the benevolence of God should bring thee to repentance?
Romans 3:31Do, we then nullify the law by faith? Far be it. On the contrary, we establish the law.
Romans 6:15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? Far be it.
1 Peter 2:16as free men, yet not like men who make their freedom a cloak for their wickedness, but as the servants of God.
Jude 1:4For some have obtained entrance, who from the beginning were registered beforehand under this condemnation: wicked men, who pervert the grace of God to impurity, and deny him who is the only Lord God and our Lord, Jesus the Messiah.
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 →