ROM 6:2 Parallel Verse View

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UST Then I would say, “Of course not!” We who are no longer controlled by sinning surely must not continue living sinfully!

AICNT By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

OEB Heaven forbid! We became dead to sin, so how can we go on living in it?

WEBBE May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

LSV Let it not be! We who died to sin—how will we still live in it?

FBV Of course not![fn] Since we're already dead to sin, how can we continue to live in sin?

6:2 Literally, “may it not be so!” This vigorous reaction is variously translated: Certainly not! By no means! God forbid! Also in 6:15 etc.

TCNT Certainly not! How can we who have died to sin still live in it?

T4T I would reply, No, certainly not! We ought to consider that our sinful desires [MET] cannot make us do what they want us to do, just like we cannot make a corpse do what we want it to do. So it is not right that we continue to sin! [RHQ]

LEB May it never be! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

BBE In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

Moff No Moff ROM book available

Wymth No, indeed; how shall we who have died to sin, live in it any longer?

ASV God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?

DRA God forbid. For we that are dead to sin, how shall we live any longer therein?

YLT let it not be! we who died to the sin — how shall we still live in it?

Drby Far be the thought. We who have died to sin, how shall we still live in it?

RV God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?

Wbstr By no means: how shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

KJB-1769 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

KJB-1611 God forbid: how shall wee that are dead to sinne, liue any longer therein?
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation)

Bshps Howe shall we that are dead to sinne, lyue any longer therin?
(How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?)

Gnva Howe shall we, that are dead to sinne, liue yet therein?
(How shall we, that are dead to sin, live yet therein? )

Cvdl God forbyd. How shal we lyue in synne, yt are deed from it?
(God forbyd. How shall we live in sin, it are dead from it?)

TNT God forbyd. How shall we that are deed as touchynge synne live eny lenger therin?
(God forbyd. How shall we that are dead as touchynge sin live any lenger therein? )

Wycl God forbede. For hou schulen we that ben deed to synne, lyue yit ther ynne?
(God forbede. For how should we that been dead to sin, live yet there ynne?)

Luth Das sei ferne! Wie sollten wir in der Sünde wollen leben, der wir abgestorben sind?
(The be ferne! How sollten we/us in the/of_the Sünde wollen life, the/of_the we/us abgestorben sind?)

ClVg Absit. Qui enim mortui sumus peccato, quomodo adhuc vivemus in illo?[fn]
(Absit. Who because mortui sumus peccato, how adhuc vivemus in illo? )

6.2 Mortui sumus. Id est liberati a peccato per baptismum, ut jam non dominetur in nobis per gratiam. Mori enim peccato, est liberari a peccato. Quomodo adhuc, etc. Cum enim hoc præstiterit gratia, ut moreremur peccato, quid aliud facimus si vivimus in eo, nisi ut gratiæ simus ingrati?

6.2 Mortui sumus. That it_is liberati from peccato through baptismum, as yam not/no dominetur in us through gratiam. Mori because peccato, it_is liberari from peccato. Quomodo adhuc, etc. Since because this præstiterit gratia, as moreremur peccato, quid something_else facimus when/but_if vivimus in eo, nisi as gratiæ simus ingrati?

UGNT μὴ γένοιτο! οἵτινες ἀπεθάνομεν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, πῶς ἔτι ζήσομεν ἐν αὐτῇ?
(maʸ genoito! hoitines apethanomen taʸ hamartia, pōs eti zaʸsomen en autaʸ?)

SBL-GNT μὴ γένοιτο· οἵτινες ἀπεθάνομεν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, πῶς ἔτι ζήσομεν ἐν αὐτῇ;
(maʸ genoito; hoitines apethanomen taʸ hamartia, pōs eti zaʸsomen en autaʸ;)

TC-GNT Μὴ γένοιτο. Οἵτινες ἀπεθάνομεν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, πῶς ἔτι ζήσομεν ἐν αὐτῇ;
(Maʸ genoito. Hoitines apethanomen taʸ hamartia, pōs eti zaʸsomen en autaʸ; )

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

μὴ γένοιτο

never ˱it˲_/might/_become

In this verse Paul responds to the rhetorical questions he wrote in the previous verse. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: [I would respond by saying, ‘May it never be!’]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / exclamations

μὴ γένοιτο

never ˱it˲_/might/_become

See how you translated this phrase in 3:4.

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

οἵτινες ἀπεθάνομεν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, πῶς ἔτι ζήσομεν ἐν αὐτῇ?

who ˱we˲_died_off ¬the ˱to˲_sin how still ˱we˲_/will_be/_living in it

Paul is not asking for information, but is using the question form here to emphasize the truth of what he is saying. If you would not use a rhetorical question for this purpose in your language, you could translate his words as a statement or an exclamation and communicate the emphasis in another way. Alternate translation: [We who died to sin surely cannot still live in it!]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

οἵτινες ἀπεθάνομεν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, πῶς ἔτι ζήσομεν ἐν αὐτῇ?

who ˱we˲_died_off ¬the ˱to˲_sin how still ˱we˲_/will_be/_living in it

Paul speaks of sin as if it were a location where Christians could live or die. Here, died to sin refers to the idea that Christians are no longer controlled by their sinful desires. By contrast, live in sin means to continue being controlled by sinful desires. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [We who are no longer controlled by our desire to sin, how could we still live as though we are controlled by that desire]

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