Romans 6:12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that all of you should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Updated King James Version
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 the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
Deuteronomy 7:2And when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you; you shall strike them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them:
Judges 2:3Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
Psalms 119:133Order my steps in your word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Romans 5:21That as sin has reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:16Know all of you not, that to whom all of you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants all of you are to whom all of you obey; 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 →