Romans 6:15
Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
In Context
14For Sin shall not be lord over you, since you are subjects not of Law, but of grace.
Cross References
Romans 6:1To what conclusion, then, shall we come? Are we to persist in sinning in order that the grace extended to us may be the greater?
2 Corinthians 7:1Having therefore these promises, beloved friends, let us purify ourselves from all defilement of body and of spirit, and secure perfect holiness through the fear of God.
Ephesians 2:8For it is by grace that you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves. It is God's gift, and is not on the ground of merit--
Jude 1:4For certain persons have crept in unnoticed--men spoken of in ancient writings as pre-destined to this condemnation--ungodly men, who pervert the grace of our God into an excuse for immorality, and disown Jesus Christ, our only Sovereign and Lord.
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 →