Romans 6:12

Let not therefore sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the passions thereof.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 also do ye account yourselves dead indeed to sin, but living unto God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

13Neither present your members as weapons of unrighteousness for sin: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness for God.

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Cross References

Romans 5:21that as sin had reigned by death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto life eternal by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:16Do ye not know, that to whomsoever ye present yourselves servants to obey, ye are his servants to whom ye obey; if of sin unto death, or of obedience, unto 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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