Romans 6:14
For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.
Bible in Basic English
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
15What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.
Cross References
Psalms 130:7O Israel, have hope in the Lord; for with the Lord is mercy and full salvation.
Matthew 1:21And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins.
John 8:36If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.
Romans 4:16For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
Romans 6:12For 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;
Romans 7:4In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give 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 →