Romans 6:2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?

English Standard Version
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

New American Standard Bible
May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

King James Bible
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

International Standard Version
Of course not! How can we who died as far as sin is concerned go on living in it?

American Standard Version
God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?

Douay-Rheims Bible
God forbid. For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?

Darby Bible Translation
Far be the thought. We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?

Young's Literal Translation
let it not be! we who died to the sin -- how shall we still live in it?

Cross References

Luke 20:16
He shall come and destroy these farmers, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

Romans 6:11
Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:15
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

Romans 7:4
Why, my brothers, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God.

Romans 7:6
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Galatians 2:19
For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live to God.

Galatians 6:14
But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.

Colossians 2:20
Why if you be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are you subject to ordinances,

Colossians 3:3
For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

1 Peter 2:24
Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live to righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

6:1,2 The apostle is very full in pressing the necessity of holiness. He does not explain away the free grace of the gospel, but he shows that connexion between justification and holiness are inseparable. Let the thought be abhorred, of continuing in sin that grace may abound. True believers are dead to sin, therefore they ought not to follow it. No man can at the same time be both dead and alive. He is a fool who, desiring to be dead unto sin, thinks he may live in it.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2. God forbid—"That be far from us"; the instincts of the new creature revolting at the thought.

How shall we, that are dead, &c.—literally, and more forcibly, "We who died to sin (as presently to be explained), how shall we live any longer therein?"