Romans 6:1

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gal 5:13 : 13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one 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? May it never be!
  • Rom 5:20-21 : 20 The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly; 21 that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Rom 2:4 : 4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
  • Rom 3:5-8 : 5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do. 6 May it never be! For then how will God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? 8 Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
  • 2 Pet 2:18-19 : 18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error; 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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    10 For the death that he died, he died to sin one time; but the life that he lives, he lives to God.

    11 Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

    12 Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

    13 Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

    14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

    15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

    16 Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

  • Rom 6:2
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    2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

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

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

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    17 But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

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    5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

    6 May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

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

    8 Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.

    9 What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks, that they are all under sin.

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    14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

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

    7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.

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

  • Rom 7:6-8
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    6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

    7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn't have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn't have known coveting, unless the law had said, "You shall not covet."

    8 But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

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    13 Did then that which is good become death to me? May it never be! 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.

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

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

    21 What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

    22 But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

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

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

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    15 But the free gift isn't like the trespass. 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 to the many.

    16 The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.

    17 For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

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

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    1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

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    20 But if what I don't desire, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

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    21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"

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

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

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    31 What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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    1 What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

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    3 Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

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    3 This will we do, if God permits.

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

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    18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

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

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