What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Parallel translations
- KJV What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
- BSB What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?
- NKJV What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?
- NASB What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?
- NLT Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of his wonderful grace?
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Cross-references · 9
- 1 Pet 2:16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
- Gal 5:13For 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.
- Rom 6:15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
- Rom 2:4Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
- Rom 3:5–8But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.
- Rom 5:20–21The law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;
- Jude 1:4For 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.
- Rom 3:31Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
- 2 Pet 2:18–19For, 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;
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