Romans 6:15
Good News Translation
What, then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under God's grace? By no means!

New Revised Standard Version
What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

Contemporary English Version
What does all this mean? Does it mean we are free to sin, because we are ruled by God's gift of undeserved grace and not by the Law? Certainly not!

New American Bible
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Of course not!

Douay-Rheims Bible
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid!

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid!

What.

Romans 3:9 What then? Do we excel them? No, not so. For we have charged both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

shall we.

Romans 6:1,2 What shall we say, then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? . . .

1 Corinthians 9:20,21 And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: . . .

2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God.

Galatians 2:17,18 But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ then the minister of sin? God forbid! . . .

Ephesians 2:8-10 For by grace you are saved through faith: and that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God. . . .

Titus 2:11-14 For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men: . . .

Jude 1:4 For certain men are secretly entered in (who were written of long ago unto this judgment), ungodly men, turning the grace of our Lord God into riotousness and denying the only sovereign Ruler and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Context
The Wages of Sin
14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace. 15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid! 16Know you not that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death or of obedience unto justice.…
Cross References
Luke 20:16
He will come and will destroy these husbandmen and will give the vineyard to others. Which they hearing, said to him: God forbid.

Romans 6:1
What shall we say, then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

Romans 6:2
God forbid! For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?

Romans 6:14
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