Romans 6:1
What then shall we say? are we still to continue in sin that favour may abound?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2Far be it! we who have died unto sin, how, any longer, shall we live therein?
Cross References
Romans 2:4Or, the riches of his kindness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise,—not knowing that, the kindness of God, unto repentance, is leading thee?
Romans 3:31Do we then make, law, void through means of our faith? Far be it! On the contrary, law, we do establish!
Romans 6:15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under favour? Far be it!
1 Peter 2:16As free, yet, not as a cloak of vice, holding your freedom, but, as God’s servants.
Jude 1:4For there have crept in unobserved certain men, who, from of old, have been publicly notified for this sentence, ungodly, men, the favour of our God, turning into wantonness, and, our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ, denying.
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 →