Romans 6:2
Far be it! we who have died unto sin, how, any longer, shall we live therein?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
In Context
1What then shall we say? are we still to continue in sin that favour may abound?
3Or know ye not that, we, as many as were immersed into Christ [Jesus], into his death were immersed?
Cross References
Psalms 119:104Out of thy precepts, will I get understanding, For this cause, do I hate every false way.
Romans 5:11And, not only, so, but are even boasting in God, through our Lord Jesus [Christ],—through whom, now, the reconciliation we have received.
Romans 7:4So, then, my brethren, ye also, were made dead unto the law through the body of the Christ, to the end ye might become another’s—his who from among the dead was raised, in order that we might bring forth fruit unto God.
2 Corinthians 5:14For, the love of the Christ, constraineth us;—
Galatians 6:14With me, however, far be it! to be boasting, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,—whereby, unto me, a world hath been crucified, and, I, unto a world;
Colossians 3:3For ye have died, and, your life, is hid, together with the Christ, in God,—
Matthew Henry on Romans 6:2-23
On Sanctification. ( a. d. 58.) 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness… Read the whole commentary →