Romans 6:2
God forbid! how shall we, who are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
In Context
1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
3Know ye not, that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death?
Cross References
Romans 5:11And not only so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation.
Romans 7:4And thus, my brethren, ye also are dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye might become another's, even his who is raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.
2 Corinthians 5:14For the love of Christ constraineth us, being fully persuaded of this, that if One died for all, then were all dead.
Galatians 6:14But God forbid that I should glory, unless in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.
Colossians 3:3For ye are dead as to the world, and your life is hid with 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 →