Verse 1

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 5:13 : 13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
  • Rom 6:15 : 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Certainly not!
  • Rom 5:20-21 : 20 Now the law was brought in so that the trespass might increase; but where sin increased, grace increased all the more. 21 So that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Rom 2:4 : 4 Or do you disrespect the riches of His kindness, forbearance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
  • Rom 3:5-8 : 5 But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust for bringing His wrath on us? (I am speaking in human terms.) 6 Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world? 7 If the truth of God has increased His glory through my falsehood, why am I still judged as a sinner? 8 Why not say—as some slanderously claim we say—"Let us do evil so that good may result"? Their condemnation is just.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then nullify the law by this faith? Absolutely not! Instead, we uphold the law.
  • 2 Pet 2:18-19 : 18 For they utter arrogant, empty words and entice those who are barely escaping from others living in error, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh and by debauchery. 19 They promise freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave to whatever has mastered them.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain people have secretly slipped in among you—those who were written about long ago as being destined for this condemnation. They are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into a license for immorality and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.