Parallel Verses
Godbey New Testament
It could not be so. How shall we, who are dead unto sin, live any longer in it?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Holman Bible
Absolutely not!
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?
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?
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?
Themes
The Dead » Illustrative of » Freedom from the power of sin
death » Figurative of regeneration
natural Death » Illustrates the change produced in conversion
Grace » The reward for being under grace
Sin » Conviction of, results of » Dead to
Sin » Why sin does not have dominion over you
The Surrendered life » Of Christ to his mission for further treatment of this subject » Dead to sin
Interlinear
Ginomai
hostis
Apothnesko
Devotionals
Devotionals about Romans 6:2
Devotionals containing Romans 6:2
References
Easton
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 6:2
Images Romans 6:2
Prayers for Romans 6:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Formerly Dead To Sin, Now Alive In Christ
1 Then what shall we say? must we abide in sin, in order that grace may abound? 2 It could not be so. How shall we, who are dead unto sin, live any longer in it? 3 Whether do you not know, that so many of us as were baptized unto Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?
Cross References
Colossians 3:3
For ye are dead, and your life is hidden with Christ in God:
1 Peter 2:24
who himself has borne our sins in his own body on the wood, in order that we, being made free from sins, may live unto righteousness: by whose stripe you are healed.
Romans 7:4
So, my brethren, ye are dead to the law through the body of Christ, that ye should be married to another, to him who is risen from the dead, in order that we may bring forth fruit unto God.
Galatians 2:19
For I through law died to law, in, order that I may live unto God.
Romans 3:1-4
Then what more belongs to the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?
Romans 5:11
but not only so, but even rejoicing in God through Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we now received reconciliation.
Romans 6:5-11
For if we have grown together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of his resurrection:
Romans 7:6
But now we have been made free from the law, being dead in that in which we were held; so that we serve in the newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
2 Corinthians 5:14-17
For the love of Christ constrains us; having judged this, that one died for all; then were all dead;
Galatians 6:14
But it would be impossible for me to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world:
Colossians 2:20
If along with Christ you are dead from the elements of the world, why are you dogmatized as living in the world,
1 Peter 1:14
As children of obedience, not being fashioned after your former lusts in ignorance:
1 Peter 4:1-3
Therefore Christ having suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves with the same mind: because the one having suffered in carnality has ceased from sin;
1 John 3:9
Every one having been born of God does not sin; because his seed remains in him: and he is not able to sin, because he has been born of God.