Romans 6:12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts of it.
Webster Bible
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 hath fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
Deuteronomy 7:2And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them, thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to 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 to you.
Psalms 119:133Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Romans 5:21That as sin hath reigned to death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:16Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants in obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience 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 →