Romans 6:2
Good News Translation
Certainly not! We have died to sin--how then can we go on living in it?

New Revised Standard Version
By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?

Contemporary English Version
No, we should not! If we are dead to sin, how can we go on sinning?

New American Bible
How can we who died to sin yet live in it?

Douay-Rheims Bible
God forbid! For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

God.

Romans 3:1-4:25 What advantage then hath the Jew: or what is the profit of circumcision? . . .

How.

Genesis 39:9 Neither is there any thing which is not in my power, or that he hath not delivered to me, but thee, who art his wife; how then can I do this wicked thing, and sin against my God?

Psalm 119:104 By thy commandments I have had understanding: therefore have I hated every way of iniquity.

1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God committeth not sin: for his seed abideth in him. And he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

dead.

Romans 6:5-11 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. . . .

Romans 5:11 And not only so: but also we glory in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received reconciliation.

Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law, by the body of Christ: that you may belong to another, who is risen again from the dead that we may bring forth fruit to God.

Galatians 2:19 For I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I may live to God; with Christ I am nailed to the cross.

Galatians 6:14 But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

Colossians 3:3 For you are dead: and your life is hid with Christ in God.

1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.

live.

2 Corinthians 5:14-17 For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead. . . .

1 Peter 1:14 As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance,

1 Peter 4:1-3 Christ therefore having suffered in the flesh, be you also armed with the same thought: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sins: . . .

Context
Dead to Sin, Alive to God
1What shall we say, then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2God forbid! For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein? 3Know you not that all we who are baptized in Christ Jesus are baptized in his death?…
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 6:11
So do you also reckon that you are dead to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:15
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid!

Romans 7:4
Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law, by the body of Christ: that you may belong to another, who is risen again from the dead that we may bring forth fruit to God.

Romans 7:6
But now we are loosed from the law of death wherein we were detained; so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Galatians 2:19
For I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I may live to God; with Christ I am nailed to the cross.

Galatians 6:14
But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

Colossians 2:20
If then you be dead with Christ from the elements of this world, why do you yet decree as though living in the world?

Colossians 3:3
For you are dead: and your life is hid with Christ in God.

1 Peter 2:24
Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.

1 Peter 4:2
That now he may live the rest of his time in the flesh, not after the desires of men but according to the will of God.

Romans 6:1
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