Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

May it not happen! How will we who died to sin, still live in it?

New American Standard Bible

May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

International Standard Version

Of course not! How can we who died as far as sin is concerned go on living in it?

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

Certainly not! How can we, the very ones who died to sin, continue to live in it any longer?

An Understandable Version

Certainly not! How can we, who died to sin [i.e., stopped living under its power], go on living in it [i.e., practicing it] any longer?

Anderson New Testament

It can not be. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?

Bible in Basic English

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

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

God forbid, that we who have died to sin should live any longer therein.

Darby Translation

Far be the thought. We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?

Godbey New Testament

It could not be so. How shall we, who are dead unto sin, live any longer in it?

Goodspeed New Testament

Certainly not! When we have died to sin, how can we live in it any longer?

John Wesley New Testament

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

Julia Smith Translation

It may not be. We who died to sin, shall we yet live in it?

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

May it never be! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Modern King James verseion

Let it not be! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

Moffatt New Testament

Never! How can we live in sin any longer, when we died to sin?

Montgomery New Testament

No indeed; how shall we who have died to sin still go on living in it any longer?

NET Bible

Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

God forbid! How shall we, who died to sin, live any longer in it?

Sawyer New Testament

By no means. How shall we who died to sin any longer live in it?

The Emphasized Bible

Far be it! we who have died unto sin, how, any longer, shall we live therein?

Thomas Haweis New Testament

God forbid. We who are dead to sin, how shall we still live therein?

Twentieth Century New Testament

Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, and how can we go on living in it?

Webster

By no means: how shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

Weymouth New Testament

No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?

Williams New Testament

Not at all! Since we have ended our relation to sin, how can we live in it any longer?

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

It could not be! How shall we, who died to sin, live any longer therein?

Worsley New Testament

God forbid! how shall we, who are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

Youngs Literal Translation

let it not be! we who died to the sin -- how shall we still live in it?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
γίνομαι 
Ginomai 
be, come to pass, be made, be done, come, become, God forbid , arise, have, be fulfilled, be married to, be preferred, not tr, , vr done
Usage: 531

How
πῶς 
Pos 
Usage: 65

shall we
ζάω 
Zao 
live, be alive, alive, quick, lively, not tr, , vr live
Usage: 115

ὅστις ἥτις ὅ6τι 
hostis 
Usage: 112

ἀποθνήσκω 
Apothnesko 
die, be dead, be at the point of death +9, perish, lie a dying, be slain +, vr dead
Usage: 93

to sin
ἁμαρτία 
Hamartia 
Usage: 143

ζάω 
Zao 
live, be alive, alive, quick, lively, not tr, , vr live
Usage: 115

ἔτι 
Eti 
Usage: 75

Devotionals

Devotionals about Romans 6:2

Devotionals containing Romans 6:2

Images Romans 6:2

Prayers for Romans 6:2

Context Readings

Formerly Dead To Sin, Now Alive In Christ

1 What will we say then? We continue in sin so that grace may abound? 2 May it not happen! How will we who died to sin, still live in it? 3 Or are ye ignorant that as many as were immersed into Christ Jesus were immersed into his death?

Cross References

Colossians 3:3

For ye died, and your life has been hidden with the Christ in God.

1 Peter 2:24

Who himself took up our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sins, might live to the righteousness of him from whose wound ye were healed.

Romans 7:4

Therefore, my brothers, ye also became dead to the law through the body of Christ in order for ye to become to another, to him who was raised from the dead, so that we would bear fruit to God.

Galatians 2:19

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

Genesis 39:9

He is not greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

Psalm 119:104

Through thy precepts I get understanding. Therefore I hate every FALSE way.

Romans 3:1-4

What then is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision?

Romans 5:11

And not only so, but also taking pride in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

Romans 6:5-11

For if we have become co-planted in the likeness of his death, then we will also be of the resurrection.

Romans 7:6

But now we have been released from the law, having died to what we were held, so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of a document.

2 Corinthians 5:14-17

For the love of Christ holds us together, having judge this, that if one died for all, then all died.

Galatians 6:14

But may it not be from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

Colossians 2:20

If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why do ye submit to rules, as though living in the world?

1 Peter 1:14

As children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

1 Peter 4:1-3

Therefore of Christ having suffered in flesh for us, arm ye yourselves also with the same mentality, because he who has suffered in flesh has ceased from sin,

1 John 3:9

Every man who has been begotten of God is not doing sin, because his seed abides in him, and he cannot sin, because he has been begotten of God.

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