Bible Strands
Romans 6:2
Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Paul addresses the Roman church, answering the hypothetical objection in verse 1 that grace might be exploited to license sin. He rejects the premise before it can take root.
The words — μὴ γένοιτο (mē genoito) is a fixed formula of emphatic refusal, not a simple "no." ἀπεθάνομεν (apethanomen) is aorist active, first person plural: "we died," a completed act, not an aspiration.
The thread — Colossians 3:3 states the same death as a past fact ("you died") and locates the resulting life "with Christ in God." 1 Peter 2:24 frames it as purpose: "that we might die to sin and live to righteousness." 1 John 3:9 draws the ethical consequence: one born of God "cannot go on sinning."
Why it lands — The verse treats death to sin as a settled fact, not a goal to be achieved. It asks the reader to stop negotiating with a premise already settled and to live from that settled ground.
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The Greek words
King James Version
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Cross-references
- 1 John 3:9 Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
- Colossians 3:3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
- 1 Peter 2:24 He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
- Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
- Galatians 2:19 For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.
- Romans 7:6 But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
- 1 Peter 1:14 As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
- 1 Peter 4:1 Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.
- 2 Corinthians 5:14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.
- Colossians 2:20 If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations: