Romans 6:1

American Standard Version (1901)

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

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  • Gal 5:13 : 13 For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only [use] not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
  • Rom 6:15 : 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.
  • Rom 5:20-21 : 20 And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly: 21 that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Rom 2:4 : 4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
  • Rom 3:5-8 : 5 But if our righteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.) 6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world? 7 But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? 8 and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.
  • 2 Pet 2:18-19 : 18 For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error; 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For there are certain men crept in privily, [even] they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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    10For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

    11Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.

    12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

    13neither present your members unto sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.

    14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.

    15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.

    16Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves [as] servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

  • Rom 6:2
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    2God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?

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    20And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly:

    21that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • Gal 2:17
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    17But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a minister of sin? God forbid.

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    5But if our righteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)

    6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

    7But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

    8and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

    9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin;

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    14What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

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    6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;

    7for he that hath died is justified from sin.

    8But if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him;

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    6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

    8but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin [is] dead.

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    13Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;--that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

    14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

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    20For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.

    21What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

    22But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.

    23For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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    6But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.

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    17So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.

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    15But not as the trespass, so also [is] the free gift. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound unto the many.

    16And not as through one that sinned, [so] is the gift: for the judgment [came] of one unto condemnation, but the free gift [came] of many trespasses unto justification.

    17For if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, [even] Jesus Christ.

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    6Insomuch that we exhorted Titus, that as he made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace also.

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    1For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

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    20But if what I would not, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.

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    21I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nought.

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    8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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    28They said therefore unto him, What must we do, that we may work the works of God?

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    1There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

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    31What then shall we say to these things? If God [is] for us, who [is] against us?

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    3And reckonest thou this, O man, who judgest them that practise such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

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    3And this will we do, if God permit.

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    14and the grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

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    18and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.

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    24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

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    26For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,