Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!
New American Standard Bible
What then?
King James Version
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Holman Bible
What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace?
International Standard Version
What, then, does this mean? Should we go on sinning because we are not under Law but under grace? Of course not!
A Conservative Version
What then? May we sin, because we are not under law but under grace? May it not happen!
American Standard Version
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.
Amplified
What then [are we to conclude]? Shall we sin because we are not under Law, but under [God’s] grace? Certainly not!
An Understandable Version
[So], what then? Should we sin because we are not governed by law but by God's unearned favor? Certainly not!
Anderson New Testament
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? It can not be.
Bible in Basic English
What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.
Common New Testament
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
Daniel Mace New Testament
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under the gospel?
Darby Translation
What then? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought.
Godbey New Testament
What then? can we commit sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? it could not be so.
Goodspeed New Testament
What follows, then? Are we to sin, because we live not under law but under mercy? Certainly not!
John Wesley New Testament
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Julia Smith Translation
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace It may not be.
King James 2000
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Lexham Expanded Bible
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!
Modern King James verseion
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under Law, but under grace? Let it not be!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law: but under grace? God forbid.
Moffatt New Testament
What follows, then? Are we 'to sin, because we live under grace, not under law'? Never!
Montgomery New Testament
What then? Shall we commit an act of sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not.
NET Bible
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!
New Heart English Bible
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be.
Noyes New Testament
What then? Are we to sin, because we are not under the Law, but under grace? God forbid!
Sawyer New Testament
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under the grace? By no means.
The Emphasized Bible
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under favour? Far be it!
Thomas Haweis New Testament
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Twentieth Century New Testament
What follows, then? Are we to sin because we are living under the reign of Love and not of Law? Heaven forbid!
Webster
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? By no means.
Weymouth New Testament
Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!
Williams New Testament
What are we to conclude? Are we to keep on sinning, because we are not living as slaves to law but as subjects to God's favor? Never!
World English Bible
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
Worrell New Testament
What, then? May we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? It could not be!
Worsley New Testament
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace?
Themes
the Human nature of Christ » Was necessary to his mediatorial office
Topics
Interlinear
Hupo
ὑπό
Hupo
Usage: 188
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 6:15
Prayers for Romans 6:15
Verse Info
Context Readings
Set Free From Sin
14 for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace. 15 What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be! 16 have ye not known that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, servants ye are to him to whom ye obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
Cross References
Romans 6:1-2
What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound?
Romans 3:9
What, then? are we better? not at all! for we did before charge both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin,
1 Corinthians 9:20-21
and I became to the Jews as a Jew, that Jews I might gain; to those under law as under law, that those under law I might gain;
2 Corinthians 7:1
Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;
Galatians 2:17-18
And if, seeking to be declared righteous in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is then Christ a ministrant of sin? let it not be!
Ephesians 2:8-10
for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift,
Titus 2:11-14
For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men,
Jude 1:4
for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord -- Jesus Christ -- denying,