Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? New Living Translation Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it? English Standard Version By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Berean Standard Bible Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer? Berean Literal Bible Never may it 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? New King James Version Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? New American Standard Bible Far from it! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? NASB 1995 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? NASB 1977 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Legacy Standard Bible May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Amplified Bible Certainly not! How can we, the very ones who died to sin, continue to live in it any longer? Christian Standard Bible Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Holman Christian Standard Bible Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? American Standard Version God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein? Aramaic Bible in Plain English God forbid! For those of us who have died to sin, how shall we live in it again? Contemporary English Version No, we should not! If we are dead to sin, how can we go on sinning? Douay-Rheims Bible God forbid. For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein? English Revised Version God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein? GOD'S WORD® Translation That's unthinkable! As far as sin is concerned, we have died. So how can we still live under sin's influence? Good News Translation Certainly not! We have died to sin--how then can we go on living in it? International Standard Version Of course not! How can we who died as far as sin is concerned go on living in it? Literal Standard Version Let it not be! We who died to sin—how will we still live in it? Majority Standard Bible Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer? New American Bible How can we who died to sin yet live in it? NET Bible Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it? New Revised Standard Version By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? New Heart English Bible Absolutely not. We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer? Webster's Bible Translation By no means: how shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Weymouth New Testament No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer? World English Bible May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer? Young's Literal Translation let it not be! we who died to the sin -- how shall we still live in it? Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Dead to Sin, Alive to God1What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer? 3Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?… Cross References Luke 20:16 He will come and kill those tenants, and will give the vineyard to others." And when the people heard this, they said, "May such a thing never happen!" Romans 6:11 So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not! Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. Romans 7:6 But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code. Galatians 2:19 For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God. Galatians 6:14 But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. Treasury of Scripture God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? God. Romans 3:1-4:25 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? … How. Genesis 39:9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? Psalm 119:104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. 1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. dead. Romans 6:5-11 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: … Romans 5:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. Romans 7:4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. live. 2 Corinthians 5:14-17 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: … 1 Peter 1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: 1 Peter 4:1-3 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; … Jump to Previous Dead Died Far Forbid Indeed Live Means Sin Therein Thought WayJump to Next Dead Died Far Forbid Indeed Live Means Sin Therein Thought WayRomans 6 1. We may not live in sin;2. for we are dead unto it; 3. as appears by our baptism. 12. Let not sin reign anymore; 18. because we have yielded ourselves to the service of righteousness; 23. and because death is the wages of sin. (2) That are dead.--Rather, that died. It is well to bear in mind Dr. Lightfoot's remarks on the importance of keeping the strict aorist sense as opposed to that of the perfect (i.e., the single past action as opposed to the prolonged or continued action) in passages such as this. "St. Paul regards this change--from sin to righteousness, from bondage to freedom, from death to life--as summed up in one definite act of the past; potentially to all men in our Lord's passion and resurrection, actually to each individual man when he accepts Christ, is baptised into Christ. Then he is made righteous by being incorporated into Christ's righteousness, he dies once for all to sin, he lives henceforth for ever to God. This is his ideal. Practically, we know that the death to sin and the life to righteousness are inchoate, imperfect, gradual, meagerly realised even by the most saintly men in this life; but St. Paul sets the matter in this ideal light to force upon the consciences of his hearers the fact that an entire change came over them when they became Christians--that the knowledge and the grace then vouchsafed to them did not leave them where they were--that they are not, and cannot be, their former selves--and that it is a contradiction of their very being to sin any more. It is the definiteness, the absoluteness of this change, considered as an historical crisis, which forms the central idea of St. Paul's teaching, and which the aorist marks. We cannot, therefore, afford to obscure this idea by disregarding the distinctions of grammar; yet in our English version it is a mere chance whether in such cases the aorist is translated as an aorist" (On Revision, p. 85). These remarks will form the best possible commentary upon the passage before us. It may be only well to add that the change between the position of the first Christians and our own involves a certain change in the application of what was originally said with reference to them. Baptism is not now the tremendous crisis that it was then. The ideal of Christian life then assumed is more distinctly an ideal. It has a much less definite hold upon the imagination and the will. But it ought not therefore to be any the less binding upon the Christian. He should work towards it, if he cannot work from it, in the spirit of Philippians 3:12-14. It would be well for the reader to note at once the corrections suggested in the rendering of this verse by Dr. Lightfoot's criticism:--In Romans 6:4, "we were buried" for "we are buried;" in Romans 6:6, "the old man was crucified" for "is crucified;" in Romans 6:8, "if we died" for "if we be dead." Verse 2. - God forbid! (Μὴ γένοιτο: St. Paul's usual way of rejecting an idea indignantly). We who (οἵτινες, with its proper meaning of being such as) died (not, as in the Authorized Version, "are dead." The reference is to the time of baptism, as appears from what follows) to sin, how shall we live any longer therein! The idea of dying to sin in the sense of having done with it, is found also in Macrob., 'Somn. Scip.,' 1:13 (quoted by Meyer), "Mori etiam dicitur, cum anima adhuc in corpora constituta corporeas illecebras philosophia docente contemnit et cupiditatum dulces insidias reliquasque omnes exuit passiones."Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Absolutely not!γένοιτο (genoito) Verb - Aorist Optative Middle - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude. How {can we} πῶς (pōs) Adverb Strong's 4459: Adverb from the base of pou; an interrogative particle of manner; in what way?; also as exclamation, how much! who οἵτινες (hoitines) Personal / Relative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 3748: Whosoever, whichsoever, whatsoever. died ἀπεθάνομεν (apethanomen) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural Strong's 599: To be dying, be about to die, wither, decay. From apo and thnesko; to die off. to sin ἁμαρτίᾳ (hamartia) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular Strong's 266: From hamartano; a sin. live ζήσομεν (zēsomen) Verb - Future Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural Strong's 2198: To live, be alive. A primary verb; to live. in ἐν (en) Preposition Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. it αὐτῇ (autē) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Feminine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. any longer? ἔτι (eti) Adverb Strong's 2089: (a) of time: still, yet, even now, (b) of degree: even, further, more, in addition. Perhaps akin to etos; 'yet, ' still. Links Romans 6:2 NIVRomans 6:2 NLT Romans 6:2 ESV Romans 6:2 NASB Romans 6:2 KJV Romans 6:2 BibleApps.com Romans 6:2 Biblia Paralela Romans 6:2 Chinese Bible Romans 6:2 French Bible Romans 6:2 Catholic Bible NT Letters: Romans 6:2 May it never be! (Rom. Ro) |
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