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Romans 6:14

For sin will not lord it over you. You are living under the reign, not of Law, but of love.

Open English Bible (US)

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

13Do not offer any part of your bodies to sin, in the cause of unrighteousness, but once for all offer yourselves to God (as those who, though once dead, now have life), and devote every part of your bodies to the cause of righteousness.

15What follows, then? Are we to sin because we are living under the reign of love and not of Law? Heaven forbid!

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Cross References

Psalms 130:7Israel, hope in the Lord: with the Lord there is love with him plenteous redemption.

Matthew 1:21She will give birth to a son; name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”

John 8:36If, then, the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed!

Romans 4:16That is why everything is made to depend on faith: so that everything may be God’s gift, and in order that the fulfillment of the promise may be made certain for all Abraham’s descendants – not only for those who take their stand on the Law, but also for those who take their stand on the faith of Abraham. (He is the father of us all;

Romans 6:12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies and compel you to obey its cravings.

Romans 7:4And so with you, my friends; as far as the Law was concerned, you underwent death in the crucified body of the Christ, so that you might be united to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that our lives might bear fruit for 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 →

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