Romans 6:14

For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under law, but under grace.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

In Context

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.

15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? It can not be.

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Cross References

Matthew 1:21And she will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus; for he will save his people from their sins.

John 8:36Therefore, if the Son make you free, you shall be free indeed.

Romans 4:16Therefore, the inheritance is by faith, that it may be according to grace, in order that the promise may be sure to all his posterity, not to those only who are of the law, but to those, also, who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

Romans 6:12Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey it;

Romans 7:4So then, my brethren, you, also, have died to the law, by the body of the Christ, in order that you may be married to another, to him who was raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit to God.

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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