Romans 6:2

Romans 6:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
• New International Version (NIV)By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?
• New Living Translation (NLT)Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it?

Context of Romans 6:2

1What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Romans 6:2 word by word

μὴ γένοιτο. οἵτινες ἀπεθάνομεν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, πῶς ἔτι ζήσομεν ἐν αὐτῇ;Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• God forbidμήmē · notG3361
• God forbidγίνομαιginomai · to beG1096
• Howπῶςpōs · how?!G4459
• shall weζάωzaō · to liveG2198
• thatὅστιςhostis hētis ho6ti · who/whichG3748
• are deadἀποθνήσκωapothnēskō · to dieG599
• to sinὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• to sinἁμαρτίαhamartia · sinG266
• any longerἔτιeti · stillG2089
• thereinἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• thereinαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846

Cross-references for Romans 6:2

• Romans 3:1Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?
• Genesis 39:9He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?"
• Psalms 119:104Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
• 1 John 3:9No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.
• Romans 6:5For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
• Romans 5:11More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
• Romans 7:4Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
• Galatians 2:19For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God.
• Galatians 6:14But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
• Colossians 3:3For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
• 1 Peter 2:24He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
• 2 Corinthians 5:14For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;
• 1 Peter 1:14As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
• 1 Peter 4:1Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

Commentaries on Romans 6:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2God forbid - , Let it not be; by no means; far from it; let not such a thing be mentioned! - Any of these is the meaning of the Greek phrase, which is a strong expression of surprise and disapprobation: and is not properly rendered by our God forbid! for, though this may express the same thing, yet it is not proper to make the sacred Name So familiar on such occasions. How shall we, that are dead to sin - The phraseology of this verse is common among…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2God forbid - By no means. Greek, It may not be; Note, Romans 3:4. The expression is a strong denial of what is implied in the objection in Romans 6:1. How shall we? … - This contains a reason of the implied statement of the apostle, that we should not continue in sin. The reason is drawn from the fact that we are dead in fact to sin. It is impossible for these who are dead to act as if they were alive. It is just as absurd to suppose that a Christian…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2we who died to sin: Paul explains in 6:3–10 our new relationship to sin is possible because we are closely connected to the death of Jesus. Just as dying means entrance into an entirely new state of being, our relationship with sin is now different because of Christ’s death. To be dead to sin does not mean that believers no longer feel temptation or desire to sin. Believers are still involved in a struggle against sin (6:12–14). However, Christians no…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. God forbid--"That be far from us"; the instincts of the new creature revolting at the thought. How shall we, that are dead, &c.--literally, and more forcibly, "We who died to sin (as presently to be explained), how shall we live any longer therein?"Read the comment

Topics related to Romans 6:2

• Death
• Holiness
• Righteous

In the dictionaries

• God
• god, false god, goddess, idol, idolater, idolatrous, idolatry
• Destroy
• Fruit
• Justification
• Newness
• Obey
• Reign
• Wages
• Works, Good

Commentaries on Romans 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings