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 3:9Whoever is born of God doesn’t commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he is born of God.
• Col 3:3For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
• 1 Pet 2:24who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
• Rom 7:4Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.
• Gal 2:19For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
• Rom 7:6But 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.
• 1 Pet 1:14as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
• 1 Pet 4:1–3Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;
• Col 2:20If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
• 2 Cor 5:14–17For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.
• Ps 119:104Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. NUN
• Gal 6:14But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
• Gen 39:9No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”
• Rom 5:11Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
• Rom 6:5–11For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will also be part of his resurrection;
• Rom 3:1–4Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

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