Romans 6:12

Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey it;

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

In Context

11So also do you count yourselves as dead indeed to sin, but as living to God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

13and present not your members to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead; and your members to God, as instruments of righteousness.

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Cross References

Romans 5:21that as sin has reigned, ending in death, so might grace reign by justification, ending in life eternal, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:16Know you not, that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether of sin that leads to death, or of obedience that leads to righteousness?

Matthew Henry on Romans 6:2-23

On Sanctification. ( a. d. 58.) 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness… Read the whole commentary →

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