Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

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

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?

A Conservative Version

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

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 may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace? 2 In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer? 3 Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death?

Cross References

Colossians 3:3

For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.

1 Peter 2:24

He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.

Romans 7:4

In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God.

Galatians 2:19

For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

Genesis 39:9

So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?

Psalm 119:104

Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.

Romans 3:1-4

How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?

Romans 5:11

And not only so, but we have joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we are now at peace with God.

Romans 6:5-11

For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again;

Romans 7:6

But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

2 Corinthians 5:14-17

For it is the love of Christ which is moving us; because we are of the opinion that if one was put to death for all, then all have undergone death;

Galatians 6:14

But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.

Colossians 2:20

If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

1 Peter 1:14

Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

1 Peter 4:1-3

So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin;

1 John 3:9

Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.

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