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Christian Living / Answer across Scripture
Romans 6 directly rejects the idea that grace gives permission to continue in sin; believers are joined to Christ's death and new life.
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Christian Living
No. Romans raises the question of whether people should continue in sin so that grace may increase and answers, 'By no means.' Paul grounds the answer in union with Christ: believers have died to sin and are connected to Christ's death and resurrection. Grace is not permission to stay under sin's rule; it is the power and gift that moves believers into new life with Christ.
Romans 6 answers a misunderstanding that could arise after Paul's teaching about grace. The chapter shows that grace joins believers to Christ's death and resurrection rather than leaving them under sin.
Romans 6:1-4 is the central passage for this answer. Paul's response begins with a strong rejection and then explains that believers have died to sin through union with Christ.
Key passages
1What will we say then? Will we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2Certainly not! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
3Or don`t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Two opposite misunderstandings often appear here: antinomianism, where grace excuses ongoing sin, and legalism, where obedience becomes the basis of being accepted by God.