Being saved
If grace covers everything, can I keep on sinning?
Short answer
No. Grace doesn't only forgive you, it changes you. You obey God not to earn His love, but because you already have it.
Paul expected this question: “Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase? Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?” (Romans 6:1-2).
You are saved for good works, not by them. Right after calling salvation a gift, Paul says we are “created in Christ Jesus to do good works” (Ephesians 2:10). James adds: “faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead” (James 2:17).
Think of adoption. You don't behave well to get into the family. You live like the family because you're in it, and you stay a child of the house when you fail.
Is there one area where you've been using grace as an excuse? Bring it to God today, and take one step to change it.
My verses
What then shall we say? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase? Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer? Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone. It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age.
So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead.