Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2God forbid! how shall we, who are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Cross References
Romans 2:4Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
Romans 3:31Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: yea we establish the law.
Romans 6:15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace?
1 Peter 2:16as free, and yet not using your liberty as a cloke for wickedness, but as the servants of God.
Jude 1:4For there have crept in some men, who have been of old described as under this condemnation, impious people, that turn the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and deny God the only Lord, and our 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 →