Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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?

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?

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, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound? 2 let it not be! we who died to the sin -- how shall we still live in it? 3 are ye ignorant that we, as many as were baptized to Christ Jesus, to his death were baptized?


Cross References

Colossians 3:3

for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;

1 Peter 2:24

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

Romans 7:4

So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

Galatians 2:19

for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;

Genesis 39:9

none is greater in this house than I, and he hath not withheld from me anything, except thee, because thou art his wife; and how shall I do this great evil? -- then have I sinned against God.'

Psalm 119:104

From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path!

Romans 3:1-4

What, then, is the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of the circumcision?

Romans 5:11

And not only so, but we are also boasting in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom now we did receive the reconciliation;

Romans 6:5-11

For, if we have become planted together to the likeness of his death, so also we shall be of the rising again;

Romans 7:6

and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

2 Corinthians 5:14-17

for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

Galatians 6:14

And for me, let it not be -- to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;

Colossians 2:20

If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances?

1 Peter 1:14

as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance,

1 Peter 4:1-3

Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,

1 John 3:9

every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.

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