Romans 6:12
Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body, such that you would obey its desires.
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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
Cross References
Leviticus 13:40The man whose hair falls off of his head is bald and clean.
Deuteronomy 7:2and when the Lord your God will have delivered them to you, you shall strike them down unto utter annihilation. You shall not enter into a pact with them, nor shall you show any pity to them.
Judges 2:3For this reason, I am not willing to destroy them before your face, so that you may have enemies, and so that their gods may be your ruin.”
Romans 5:21So then, just as sin has reigned unto death, so also may grace reign through justice unto eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:16Do you not know to whom you are offering yourselves as servants under obedience? You are the servants of whomever you obey: whether of sin, unto death, or of obedience, unto justice.
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 →