Romans 6:2
let it not be! we who died to the sin — how shall we still live in it?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
In Context
1What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound?
3are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized?
Cross References
Psalms 119:104From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path!
Romans 5:11And not only [so], but we are also boasting in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we did receive the reconciliation;
Romans 7:4So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;
2 Corinthians 5:14for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,
Galatians 6:14And for me, let it not be — to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;
Colossians 3:3for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the 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 →