Origen, on Rom 6:15

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

“Paul repeats here what he said [in verse 1] above. The only difference is that [in verse 1] he posed the question as if he were speaking to people who had not yet abandoned their sinning, and so he appears to be telling them not to persist in what they had been doing up till then. Here, on the other hand, he seems to be talking to those who have already given up sinning. [In verse 1] he spoke as if abundant grace did not yet exist, but here he speaks as if grace is already present, because "we are not under law but under grace."”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.