Romans 6:12

Let not then sin reign in your mortal body, bringing you into subjection to its lusts,

Noyes Bible

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

11Thus do ye too consider yourselves as dead to sin, but alive to God, through Jesus Christ.

13nor yield up your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but yield up yourselves to God, as being alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

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Cross References

Psalms 119:133Establish my footsteps in thy word, And let no iniquity have dominion over me!

Romans 5:21that as sin reigned in death, so grace might reign through righteousness to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:16Know ye not, that whomever ye choose to obey as a master, his bondmen ye are, whether of sin whose fruit is death, or of obedience whose fruit is 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 →

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