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Romans 6:1–2

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WHAT shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
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From verse 1

  1. 1 Peter 2:16Rank 1 from verse 1
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    16As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

  2. Galatians 5:13Rank 2 from verse 1
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    13For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

  3. Romans 6:15Rank 3 from verse 1
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    15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

  4. Romans 2:4Rank 4 from verse 1
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    4Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

  5. Romans 3:5–8Rank 5 from verse 1
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    5But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

    6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

    7For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

    8And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

  6. Romans 5:20–21Rank 6 from verse 1
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    20Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

    21That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

  7. Jude 1:4Rank 7 from verse 1
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    4For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

  8. Romans 3:31Rank 8 from verse 1
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    31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

  9. 2 Peter 2:18–19Rank 9 from verse 1
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    18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

    19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

From verse 2

  1. 1 John 3:9Rank 1 from verse 2
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    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.

  2. Colossians 3:3Rank 2 from verse 2
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    3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

  3. 1 Peter 2:24Rank 3 from verse 2
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    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.

  4. Romans 7:4Rank 4 from verse 2
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    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.

  5. Galatians 2:19Rank 5 from verse 2
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    19For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

  6. Romans 7:6Rank 6 from verse 2
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    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.

  7. 1 Peter 1:14Rank 7 from verse 2
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    14As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

  8. 1 Peter 4:1–3Rank 8 from verse 2
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    1FORASMUCH 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;

    2That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

    3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

  9. Colossians 2:20Rank 9 from verse 2
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    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,

  10. 2 Corinthians 5:14–17Rank 10 from verse 2
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    14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

    15And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

    16Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

    17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

  11. Psalms 119:104Rank 11 from verse 2
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    104Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

  12. Galatians 6:14Rank 12 from verse 2
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    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.

  13. Genesis 39:9Rank 13 from verse 2
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    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?

  14. Romans 3:1–4Rank 14 from verse 2
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    1WHAT advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?

    2Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

    3For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

    4God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

  15. Romans 5:11Rank 15 from verse 2
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    11And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

  16. Romans 6:5–11Rank 16 from verse 2
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    5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

    6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

    7For he that is dead is freed from sin.

    8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

    9Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

    10For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

    11Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Romans 6:1

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

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say

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Sense 1: To speak, declare, tell, or express. Sense 2: What is said.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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sin

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1. Wrongdoing against God and his law; transgression or unrighteousness. 2. The guilt or burden of such wrongdoing, or the inward principle so named. 3. As a verb, to commit such wrongdoing.

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grace

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Sense 1: Favor, acceptance, goodwill, kindness, or mercy. Sense 2: A favor, gift, benefit, or help freely bestowed, especially God's favor and enabling help; in salvation, explicitly contrasted with works and debt. Sense 3: Pleasing quality, beauty, attractiveness, or elegance, including gracious speech. Sense 4: Thankfulness or gratitude.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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abound

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To be plentiful, full, or in excess; to increase, overflow, or possess or supply in abundance.

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Romans 6:2

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God forbid

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An emphatic expression of rejection, abhorrence, or denial: let it not be; certainly not.

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

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dead

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Sense 1: Without life; deprived of life. Sense 2: Lifeless, inactive, insensible, or separated from a former state by figure.

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sin

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1. Wrongdoing against God and his law; transgression or unrighteousness. 2. The guilt or burden of such wrongdoing, or the inward principle so named. 3. As a verb, to commit such wrongdoing.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

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live

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Sense 1: As a verb, to have or continue in life; to remain alive, be restored to life, or not die. Sense 2: To dwell, abide, or continue in a place, state, relation, or manner of life. Sense 3: To subsist or be sustained by or upon what is named. Sense 4: As an adjective, alive rather than dead; or containing fire and not extinguished.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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therein

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In, within, during, or concerning that place, person, thing, condition, time, or matter previously mentioned.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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6:1WHAT shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

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6:2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

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6:3Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

6:4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

6:5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

6:6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

6:7For he that is dead is freed from sin.

6:8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

6:9Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

6:10For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

6:11Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

6:12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

6:13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

6:14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

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