Romans 6:12
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies so that you obey it in the body's sinful desires.
Text-Critical English NT
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
11So you also must consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Cross References
Romans 5:21so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:16Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to 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 →