Romans 6:1
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
KJV
Τί οὖν ἐροῦμεν; ἐπιμένωμεν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, ἵνα ἡ χάρις πλεονάσῃ;
Greek NT
Quid ergo dicemus ? permanebimus in peccato ut gratia abundet ?
Vulgate
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
ASV
What shall we say, then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
πλεονάζω
pleonazo
verb · 9×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
χάρις
charis
noun · 155×
ἁμαρτία
amartia
noun · 173×
ἐπιμένω
epimeno
verb · 17×
ἐρέω
ereo
verb · 96×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ἐπιμένωμεν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐπιμένωμεν | RP: Ἐπιμένομεν
- ἐπιμένωμεν — SBLGNT
- ἐπιμένωμεν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- Ἐπιμένομεν — Robinson-Pierpont
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Historic Christian voices
10 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210210.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
1. You have heard how much Paul found fault with the Hebrews for wishing to be always learning about the same things. And with good reason: For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, you have need again that some one teach you the elements of the first principles of the oracles of God. Hebrews 5:12 I am afraid that this might fitly be said to you also, that when for the tim…
Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid. Calvin shows that Paul refutes the charge of antinomianism. Those who have been united with Christ in his death are dead to sin and alive to God. Baptism signifies this union with Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection. Sin shall not have dominion over the believer, for we are not under law but under grace. The …
Q. What is involved in genuine repentance or conversion? A. Two things: the dying of the old self, and the coming to life of the new.
Canons of Dort · 2 passages
This assurance of perseverance, however, so far from making true believers proud and carnally self-assured, is rather the true root of humility, of childlike respect, of genuine godliness, of endurance in every struggle, of fervent prayers, of steadfastness in cross-bearing and in confessing the truth, and of well-founded joy in God. Reflecting on this benefit provides an incen…
The Synod rejects the errors of those who teach that the teaching of the assurance of perseverance and of salvation is by its very nature and character an opiate of the flesh and is harmful to godliness, good morals, prayer, and other holy exercises, but that, on the contrary, to have doubt about this is praiseworthy. For these people show that they do not know the effective op…
Cross-references
- 1John 2:1 — My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
- 1Pet 2:16 — As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
- 2Pet 1:9 — But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
- 2Pet 2:18 — For 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.
- Eph 4:20 — But ye have not so learned Christ;
- Ezra 9:14 — Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant n
- Gal 2:17 — But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
- Gal 5:13 — For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
- Jude 1:4 — For 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
- Jude 1:4 — For 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
- Matt 5:19 — Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be
- Rom 2:4 — Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
- Rom 3:5 — But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
- Rom 3:8 — And 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.
- Rom 3:31 — Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
- Rom 5:20 — Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
- Rom 5:20 — Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
- Rom 6:15 — What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
- Rom 6:15 — What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.