Romans 6:1
What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
In Context
2let it not be! we who died to the sin — how shall we still live in it?
Cross References
Romans 2:4or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? — not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!
Romans 3:31Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.
Romans 6:15What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!
1 Peter 2:16as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;
Jude 1:4for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord — Jesus Christ — denying,
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 →