Romans 6:2 Parallel Translations
NASB: May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? (NASB ©1995)
GWT: That's unthinkable! As far as sin is concerned, we have died. So how can we still live under sin's influence?(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
ASV: God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?
BBE: In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?
DBY: Far be the thought. We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?
ERV: God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?
WEY: No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?
WBS: By no means: how shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
WEB: May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
YLT: let it not be! we who died to the sin -- how shall we still live in it?
Romans 6:2 Cross References
XREF:Luke 20:16 "He will come and destroy these vine-growers and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"

Romans 6:11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!

Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

Romans 7:6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

Galatians 2:19 "For through the Law I died to the Law, so that I might live to God.

Colossians 2:20 If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as,

Colossians 3:3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

1 Peter 2:24 and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 6:2 God forbid. {2} How shall we, that are {b} dead to sin, live any longer therein?
(2) The benefits of justification and sanctification are always inseparable joined together, and both of them proceed from Christ by the grace of God: now sanctification is the abolishing of sin, that is, of our natural corruption, whose place is taken by the cleanness and pureness of a reformed nature.
(b) They are said by Paul to be dead to sin, who are made partakers of the power of Christ, so that the natural corruption is dead in them, that is, the power of it is removed, and it does not bring forth its bitter fruits: and on the other hand, they are said to live to sin, who are in the flesh, that is, whom the Spirit of God has not delivered from the slavery of the corruption of nature.
PNT: 6:2 God forbid. By no means, as in the Revised Version. The answer is emphatic. The thought is abhorrent, and the thing impossible from the very nature of the Christian life. The Christian life begins with a death to sin.
How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer in it? The Revised Version says, Who died to sin. That is correct. The Greek verb apothnesko is in the past tense. A fact is referred to that occurred in the past. Death is a separation. When we severed our relation with sin, we died to it. If we have cut loose from it, how can we continue in it?
WES: 6:2 Dead to sin - Freed both from the guilt and from the power of it.
MHC: 6:1,2 The apostle is very full in pressing the necessity of holiness. He does not explain away the free grace of the gospel, but he shows that connexion between justification and holiness are inseparable. Let the thought be abhorred, of continuing in sin that grace may abound. True believers are dead to sin, therefore they ought not to follow it. No man can at the same time be both dead and alive. He is a fool who, desiring to be dead unto sin, thinks he may live in it.
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