Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? New Living Translation Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of his wonderful grace? English Standard Version What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? Berean Standard Bible What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase? Berean Literal Bible What then will we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? King James Bible What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? New King James Version What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? New American Standard Bible What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? NASB 1995 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? NASB 1977 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace might increase? Legacy Standard Bible What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? Amplified Bible What shall we say [to all this]? Should we continue in sin and practice sin as a habit so that [God’s gift of] grace may increase and overflow? Christian Standard Bible What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply? Holman Christian Standard Bible What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply? American Standard Version What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? Contemporary English Version What should we say? Should we keep on sinning, so that God's gift of undeserved grace will show up even better? English Revised Version What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? GOD'S WORD® Translation What should we say then? Should we continue to sin so that God's kindness will increase? Good News Translation What shall we say, then? Should we continue to live in sin so that God's grace will increase? International Standard Version What should we say, then? Should we go on sinning so that grace may increase? Majority Standard Bible What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase? NET Bible What shall we say then? Are we to remain in sin so that grace may increase? New Heart English Bible What should we say then? Should we continue in sin, that grace may abound? Webster's Bible Translation What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? Weymouth New Testament To what conclusion, then, shall we come? Are we to persist in sinning in order that the grace extended to us may be the greater? World English Bible What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionWhat, then, will we say? Will we continue in sin that grace may abound? Berean Literal Bible What then will we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Young's Literal Translation What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound? Smith's Literal Translation What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, that grace might abound. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleWHAT shall we say, then? shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? Catholic Public Domain Version So what shall we say? Should we remain in sin, so that grace may abound? New American Bible What then shall we say? Shall we persist in sin that grace may abound? Of course not! New Revised Standard Version What then are we to say? Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleWHAT shall we then say? Shall we con tinue in sin, that grace may abound? Aramaic Bible in Plain English What shall we say, therefore? Shall we remain in sin that grace may abound? NT Translations Anderson New TestamentWhat, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Godbey New Testament Then what shall we say? must we abide in sin, in order that grace may abound? Haweis New Testament THAT then shall we say? Shall we abide in sin, that grace may abound? Mace New Testament Do we then conclude thus, let us continue in sin, that the divine favour may be more fully display'd? Weymouth New Testament To what conclusion, then, shall we come? Are we to persist in sinning in order that the grace extended to us may be the greater? Worrell New Testament What, then, shall we say? Shall we persist in sin, that grace may abound? Worsley New Testament What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Dead to Sin, Alive to God1What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?… Cross References Galatians 5:13 For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love. 1 Peter 2:16 Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God. Jude 1:4 For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 6:12 “Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be mastered by anything. Galatians 2:17 But if, while we seek to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, does that make Christ a minister of sin? Certainly not! Titus 2:11-12 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone. / It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 1 John 3:6-9 No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him. / Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous. / The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil. ... 2 Peter 2:19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him. Hebrews 10:26 If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains, 1 Corinthians 15:34 Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame. Ephesians 4:17-24 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. / They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. / Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more. ... Colossians 3:5-10 Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. / Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. / When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways. ... 1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness. 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come! Jeremiah 7:9-10 Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, / and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’? Treasury of Scripture What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? What. Romans 3:5 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) Shall. Romans 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Romans 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? Romans 3:5-8,31 But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man) … Jump to Previous Abound Conclusion Continue Extended Grace Greater Increase Order Persist Sin SinningJump to Next Abound Conclusion Continue Extended Grace Greater Increase Order Persist Sin SinningRomans 6 1. We may not live in sin;2. for we are dead unto it; 3. as appears by our baptism. 12. Let not sin reign anymore; 18. because we have yielded ourselves to the service of righteousness; 23. and because death is the wages of sin. What then shall we say? This phrase introduces a rhetorical question, a common technique used by Paul to engage his audience and provoke thought. The Greek phrase "Τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν;" (Ti oun eroumen?) suggests a transition from the previous discussion in Romans 5, where Paul elaborates on the abundance of grace through Jesus Christ. Historically, this method of questioning was used by rabbis to encourage deeper reflection and understanding. Paul, a former Pharisee, employs this technique to challenge the Roman believers to consider the implications of grace. Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase? (1-5) These considerations might seem to lead to an Antinomian conclusion. If the increase of sin has only led to a larger measure of forgiveness it might be thought well to continue in sin, and so to enhance the measure and glory of forgiving grace. But to the Christian this is impossible. In regard to sin he is, in theory and principle, dead. When he was converted from heathenism and received Christian baptism he gave himself up unreservedly to Christ; he professed adhesion to Christ, and especially to His death; he pledged himself to adopt that death as his own; he entered into fellowship with it in order that he might also enjoy the fellowship of the resurrection of Christ. This fellowship or participation is both physical and ethical. (1) Shall we continue in sin?--Again the Apostle is drawn into one of those subtle casuistical questions that had such a great attraction for him. But he soon returns to the root-ideas of his own system. In previous chapters he had dealt with one of the two great root-ideas, justification by faith; he now passes to the second, union with Christ. The one might be described as the juridical, the other as the mystical, theory of salvation. The connecting-link which unites them is faith. Faith in Christ, and especially in the death of Christ, is the instrument of justification. Carried a degree further. it involves an actual identification with the Redeemer Himself. This, no doubt, is mystical language. When strictly compared with the facts of the religious consciousness, it must be admitted that all such terms as union, oneness, fellowship, identification, pass into the domain of metaphor. They are taken to express the highest conceivable degree of attachment and devotion. In this sense they are now consecrated by the use of centuries, and any other phrases substituted for them, though gaining perhaps somewhat in precision, would only seem poor and cold. (See Excursus G: On the Doctrine of Union with Christ.) Verse 1-8:39. - (7) Moral results to true believers of the revelation to them of the righteousness of God. The righteousness of God having been announced as revealed in the gospel (Romans 1:17), set forth as available for all mankind (Romans 3:21-31), shown to be in accordance with the teaching of the Old Testament (Romans 4:1-25), viewed with regard to the feelings and hopes of believers fell Romans 5:1-11) and to the position of the human race before God (Romans 5:12-21), the necessary moral results of a true apprehension of the doctrine are treated in this section of the Epistle. And first is shown from various points of view - Verse 1-7:6. - (a) The obligation believers of holiness of life. The subject is led up to by meeting certain supposed erroneous conclusions from what has been said in the preceding chapter. It might be said that, if where sin abounded grace did much more abound - if in the obedience of the one Christ all believers are justified - human sin must be a matter of indifference; it cannot nullify the free gift; nay, grace will be even the more enhanced, in that it abounds the more. The apostle rebuts such antinomian conclusions by showing that they imply a total misunderstanding of the doctrine which was supposed to justify them; for that our partaking in the righteousness of God in Christ means our actually partaking in it - our being influenced by it, loving it and following it, not merely our having it imputed to us while we remain aloof from it; that justifying faith in Christ means spiritual union with Christ, a dying with him to sin and a rising with him to a new life, in which sin shall no longer have dominion over us. He refers to our baptism as having this only meaning, and he enforces his argument by three illustrations: firstly, as aforesaid, that of dying and rising again, which is signified in baptism (vers. 1-14); secondly, that of service to a master (vers. 15-23); thirdly, that of the relation of a wife to a husband (Romans 7:1-16). It will be seen, when we come to it, that the third of these illustrations is a carrying out of the same idea, though it is there law, and not sin, that we are said to be emancipated from. Verse 1. - What shall we say then? So St. Paul introduces a difficulty or objection arising out of the preceding argument (cf. Romans 3:5). Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? Referring to the whole preceding argument, and especially to the concluding verses (Romans 5:20, 21).Parallel Commentaries ... Greek WhatΤί (Ti) Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Singular Strong's 5101: Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what. then οὖν (oun) Conjunction Strong's 3767: Therefore, then. Apparently a primary word; certainly, or accordingly. shall we say? ἐροῦμεν (eroumen) Verb - Future Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural Strong's 2046: Probably a fuller form of rheo; an alternate for epo in certain tenses; to utter, i.e. Speak or say. Shall we continue ἐπιμένωμεν (epimenōmen) Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 1st Person Plural Strong's 1961: (a) I remain, tarry, (b) I remain in, persist in. From epi and meno; to stay over, i.e. Remain. in sin ἁμαρτίᾳ (hamartia) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular Strong's 266: From hamartano; a sin. so that ἵνα (hina) Conjunction Strong's 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that. grace χάρις (charis) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's 5485: From chairo; graciousness, of manner or act. may increase? πλεονάσῃ (pleonasē) Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 4121: From pleion; to do, make or be more, i.e. Increase; by extension, to superabound. Links Romans 6:1 NIVRomans 6:1 NLT Romans 6:1 ESV Romans 6:1 NASB Romans 6:1 KJV Romans 6:1 BibleApps.com Romans 6:1 Biblia Paralela Romans 6:1 Chinese Bible Romans 6:1 French Bible Romans 6:1 Catholic Bible NT Letters: Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we (Rom. Ro) |
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