Romans 6:12
Let not sin, therefore, reign in your death-doomed body, that ye should be obedient to its covetings;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
Cross References
Leviticus 13:40And, when, any man’s, head loseth its hair, though, bald, he is, clean.
Deuteronomy 7:2and Yahweh thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them, thou shalt devote them to destruction, thou shalt not solemnise with them a covenant neither shalt thou shew them favour;
Judges 2:3Wherefore also I said, I will not drive them out from before you,—but they shall be your adversaries, and, their gods, shall become unto you a snare.
Psalms 119:133My steps, direct thou by thy word, and let no iniquity, have dominion over me.
Romans 5:21In order that—just as sin reigned in death, so, also, favour, might reign through righteousness unto life age-abiding, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:16Know ye not that, unto whom ye are presenting yourselves as servants for obedience, servants ye are unto [him unto] whom ye are obedient, whether 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 →