Romans 6:14
For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under the law, but under grace.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Cross References
Psalms 130:7Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand: nor he that gathereth sheaves his bosom.
Matthew 1:21And she shall bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name JESUS. For he shall save his people from their sins.
John 8:36If therefore the son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.
Romans 4:16Therefore is it of faith, that according to grace the promise might be firm to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
Romans 6:12Let no sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.
Romans 7:4Therefore, my brethren, you also are become dead to the law, by the body of Christ; that you may belong to another, who is risen again from the dead, that we may 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 →