Romans 6:2

Paul rejects the idea emphatically: those who died to sin cannot go on living in it. Grace transforms, it does not excuse sin.

Cross-references · 16

• 1 Jn 3:9Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
• Col 3:3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
• 1 Pet 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
• Rom 7:4Wherefore, 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.
• Gal 2:19For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
• Rom 7:6But 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.
• 1 Pet 1:14As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
• 1 Pet 4:1–3Forasmuch 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;
• Col 2:20Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
• 2 Cor 5:14–17For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:
• Ps 119:104Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
• Gal 6:14But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
• Gen 39:9There 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?
• Rom 5:11And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
• Rom 6:5–11For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
• Rom 3:1–4What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

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