Romans 6:2 “Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?”

Romans 6:2

Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Howe shall we, that are dead to sinne, liue yet therein?

Darby 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?

Bible in Basic English

In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

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Cross references

“God”

Romans 3:1–4

Romans 3:1–4 · BSB

What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

“How”

1 John 3:9 Psalm 119:104 Genesis 39:9

1 John 3:9 · BSB

Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

Psalm 119:104 · BSB

I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way.

Genesis 39:9 · BSB

No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”

“dead”

Colossians 3:3 1 Peter 2:24 Romans 7:4 Galatians 2:19 Galatians 6:14 Romans 6:5–11

Colossians 3:3 · BSB

For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.

1 Peter 2:24 · BSB

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

Romans 7:4 · BSB

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.

Galatians 2:19 · BSB

For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.

Galatians 6:14 · BSB

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.

Romans 6:5–11 · BSB

For if we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection.

“live”

1 Peter 1:14 1 Peter 4:1–3 2 Corinthians 5:14–17

1 Peter 1:14 · BSB

As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.

1 Peter 4:1–3 · BSB

Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.

2 Corinthians 5:14–17 · BSB

For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.

Also

Romans 7:6 Colossians 2:20

Romans 7:6 · BSB

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.

Colossians 2:20 · BSB

If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase?

3Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?

Read Romans 6