Romans Verse two

God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? (Romans 6:2)

No, we are not to continue to sin so grace may abound.

The answer to the sin question is, we are "dead to sin."

But what does this expression mean?

There are at least three possible answers:

The sin nature is dead in us and we no longer have sinful desires.

It does not matter too much if we sin because God does not regard what a believer does as being sinful.

Sinful behavior is not appropriate, reasonable, expected, or desirable because we have taken our place with Christ on the cross and in so doing have declared our adamic personality to be dead with Christ and our new nature to be risen with Christ.

Paul had not, in previous chapters, introduced the concept that we are dead to sin. He now proceeds to elaborate the idea of being dead to sin, for it is in our union with Christ's death and resurrection that the answer is found to the perplexing issue of the relationship of the Law of Moses to the new covenant and the relationship of sin to the new covenant.