Romans 6:1,2

That we should continue to live in sin? In chapter 5 Paul showed us that man's sin provided a reason and a need for God's grace and mercy. Some said. "If that is true, then the more we sin, the more God can show his grace." Certainly not! [God forbid is not in the Greek.] Paul makes this plain: the Christian life begins with death to sin. In the next few verses, Paul shows us that in the act of baptism, we died to sin and divorced ourselves from it, and that we have been sealed with the death of Christ (see note on Revelation 7:2-3).