Romans 6:15

King James Version

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
So what should we do? Should we sin because we are under grace and not under law? Certainly not!

Revised Standard Version
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
What then? Shall we synne because we are not vnder the lawe: but vnder grace? God forbyd.

Hebrew Names Version
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

International Standard Version
What, then, does this mean?does this mean">[fn] Should we go on sinning because we are not under law but under grace? Of course not!1 Corinthians 9:21;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under the Law but under grace? Far from it!

New Century Version
So what should we do? Should we sin because we are under grace and not under law? No!

Update Bible Version
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.

Webster's Bible Translation
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? By no means.

English Standard Version
What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

World English Bible
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

Weymouth's New Testament
Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
What therfor? Schulen we do synne, for we ben not vndur the lawe, but vndur grace?

English Revised Version
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.

Berean Standard Bible
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!

Contemporary English Version
What does all this mean? Does it mean we are free to sin, because we are ruled by God's wonderful kindness and not by the Law? Certainly not!

Amplified Bible
What then [are we to conclude]? Shall we sin because we are not under Law, but under [God's] grace? Certainly not!

American Standard Version
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.

Bible in Basic English
What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore, what conclusion should we reach? "Let's go on sinning, because we're not under legalism but under grace"? Heaven forbid!

Darby Translation
What then? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought.

Etheridge Translation
What, then, shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace ? Not so.

Murdock Translation
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? Far be it.

King James Version (1611)
What then? shal we sinne, because wee are not vnder the Law, but vnder Grace? God forbid.

New Living Translation
Well then, since God's grace has set us free from the law, does that mean we can go on sinning? Of course not!

New Life Bible
What are we to do then? Are we to sin because we have God's loving-favor and are not living by the Law? No, not at all!

New Revised Standard
What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!

Geneva Bible (1587)
What then? shall we sinne, because we are not vnder the Law, but vnder grace? God forbid.

George Lamsa Translation
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law, but under grace? Far be it.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under favour? Far be it!

Douay-Rheims Bible
What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid!

Bishop's Bible (1568)
What then? Shall we sinne, because we are not vnder the lawe, but vnder grace? God forbyd.

Good News Translation
What, then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law but under God's grace? By no means!

Christian Standard Bible®
What then? Should we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Absolutely not!

Lexham English Bible
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!

Literal Translation
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under Law, but under grace? Let it not be!

Young's Literal Translation
What then? shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? let it not be!

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
How then? Shal we synne, because we are not vnder ye lawe, but vnder grace? God forbyd.

Mace New Testament (1729)
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under the gospel?

THE MESSAGE
So, since we're out from under the old tyranny, does that mean we can live any old way we want? Since we're free in the freedom of God, can we do anything that comes to mind? Hardly. You know well enough from your own experience that there are some acts of so-called freedom that destroy freedom. Offer yourselves to sin, for instance, and it's your last free act. But offer yourselves to the ways of God and the freedom never quits. All your lives you've let sin tell you what to do. But thank God you've started listening to a new master, one whose commands set you free to live openly in his freedom!

New English Translation
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

New King James Version
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!

Simplified Cowboy Version
So, since we don't live by the Code, does that mean we can do whatever we want? It don't work that way, cowboy.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!

Legacy Standard Bible
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!

Contextual Overview

¹ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? ² God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? ³ Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? ⁴ Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. ⁵ For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: ⁶ Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. ⁷ For he that is dead is freed from sin. ⁸ Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: ⁹ Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. ¹⁰ For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

What: Romans 3:9

shall we: Romans 6:1, Romans 6:2, 1 Corinthians 9:20, 1 Corinthians 9:21, 2 Corinthians 7:1, Galatians 2:17, Galatians 2:18, Ephesians 2:8-10, Titus 2:11-14, Jude 1:4

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 21:3 - The Lord Matthew 5:19 - shall teach Romans 2:4 - despisest Romans 3:4 - God forbid Romans 3:8 - Let us Romans 6:14 - under Romans 7:6 - But Romans 7:7 - What Romans 11:7 - What then 1 Corinthians 6:15 - God Galatians 3:23 - under Galatians 5:18 - ye are Philippians 1:18 - What 1 John 2:1 - that

Cross-References

Genesis 7:20
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

Deuteronomy 3:11
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

What then? shall we sin,.... Does it follow from hence, that therefore we may sin, and go on and continue in it,

because we are not under the law, but under grace? here the apostle meets with an objection of the adversary, saying, that if men are not under the law, and are free from all obligation to it, then they may live as they list; nor can they be chargeable with sin, or that be objected to them; since where there is no law, there is no transgression, and sin is not imputed where there is no law; and if they are under grace, or in the love and favour of God, from which there is no separation, then they cannot be damned, do what they will: but this objection proceeds upon a mistaken sense of the phrase, "under the law"; for believers, though they are not under the law as the ministry of Moses, yet they are under it, as it is in the hands of Christ; and though not under its curse, yet under obligation to obedience to it, from principles of love and grace; and a transgression of it is sin in them, as in others; and which is taken notice of by God, and visited with stripes in a: fatherly way, though his loving kindness is not removed: and to argue from the unchangeableness of God's grace, or the doctrines of it, as encouraging licentiousness, is greatly to abuse the grace of God, and manifestly betrays such persons to be ignorant of it and its influence; since nothing more powerfully engages to a love of holiness, and hatred of sin; wherefore the apostle, answers to this objection in his usual way,

God forbid; signifying his abhorrence of everything of this kind.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

What then? shall we sin ... - The apostle proceeds to notice an objection which might be suggested. “If Christians are not under the law, which forbids all sin, but are under grace, which pardons sin, will it not follow that they will feel themselves released from obligation to be holy? Will they not commit sin freely, since the system of grace is one which contemplates pardon, and which will lead them to believe that they may be forgiven to any extent?” This Consequence has been drawn by many professing Christians; and it was well therefore, for the apostle to guard against it.

God forbid - Note, Romans 3:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 6:15. Shall we sin because we are not under the law — Shall we abuse our high and holy calling because we are not under that law which makes no provision for pardon, but are under that Gospel which has opened the fountain to wash away all sin and defilement? Shall we sin because grace abounds? Shall we do evil that good may come of it? This be far from us!