Romans 6:15

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Titus 2:11-14 : 11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, 12 instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world; 13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ; 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
  • Eph 2:8-9 : 8 for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, that no one would boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
  • Rom 6:1-2 : 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
  • 1 Cor 9:20-21 : 20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law; 21 to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
  • 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
  • Gal 2:17-18 : 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! 18 For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.
  • Rom 3:9 : 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.
  • 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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    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.

  • Rom 6:1-2
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    1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

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

  • Gal 2:16-17
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    16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

    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!

  • Rom 7:5-8
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    5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

    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.

  • Rom 9:14
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    14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

  • Rom 6:16-18
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    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?

    17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.

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

  • Rom 3:6-9
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    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.

  • Rom 5:20-21
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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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    18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

  • Rom 4:15
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    15 For the law works wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

  • Rom 7:13-14
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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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    6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

  • Gal 5:4
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    4 You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

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    15 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

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    13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law.

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    31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.

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    21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could make alive, most certainly righteousness would have been of the law.

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

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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.

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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.

  • Rom 8:1-2
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    1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

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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!"

  • Rom 2:12
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    12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

  • Rom 6:6-7
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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.

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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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    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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    20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

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    25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

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    1 Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,

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    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.

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    4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.