Romans 6:1
Therefore what shall we say? Shall we dwell in sin, (so) that grace be plenteous?
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2God forbid. For how shall we that be dead to sin, live yet therein?
Cross References
Romans 2:4Whether thou despisest the riches of his goodness, and the patience, and the long abiding? Knowest thou not, that the benignity, [or (the) good will], of God leadeth thee to forthinking, (or to repenting), [or to penance]?
Romans 3:31Destroy we therefore the law by faith? God forbid; but we stablish the law.
Romans 6:15What therefore? Shall we do sin, for we be not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
1 Peter 2:16As free men, and not as having freedom the covering of malice, but as the servants of God.
Jude 1:4For some unfaithful men privily entered, that sometime were before-written into this doom, and overturn the grace of our God into lechery, and deny him that is only a Lord, our Lord Jesus Christ. (For some unfaithful or unbelieving men have privately, or secretly, entered in among you, they whom long ago the judgement was written about, and who now turn the grace of our God into a license for lust, and deny him who is the only Lord, 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 →