Romans 6:12
For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;
Bible in Basic English
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
11Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.
Cross References
Leviticus 13:40And if a man's hair has come out and he has no hair, still he is clean.
Deuteronomy 7:2And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:
Judges 2:3And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you.
Psalms 119:133Let my steps be guided by your word; and let not sin have control over me.
Romans 5:21That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:16Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being 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 →