Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2By no means. How shall we, who are dead to sin, live in it any longer?
Cross References
Romans 2:4Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience; not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?
Romans 3:31Do we then make the law void through faith? Not at all: rather, we establish the law.
Romans 6:15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? By no means.
1 Peter 2:16Live as free men, not using your liberty as a cloak for evil, but live as the servants of God.
Jude 1:4For certain men have crept in secretly, who were long ago ordained for this condemnation; ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into licentiousness, and denying our only Master 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 →