Romans 6:14

For Sin shall not be lord over you, since you are subjects not of Law, but of grace.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

In Context

13and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin to use. On the contrary surrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead, and surrender your several faculties to God, to be used as weapons to maintain the right.

15Are we therefore to sin because we are no longer under the authority of Law, but under grace? No, indeed!

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Cross References

Matthew 1:21She will give birth to a Son, and you are to call His name JESUS for He it is who will save His People from their sins."

John 8:36If then the Son shall make you free, you will be free indeed.

Romans 4:16All depends on faith, and for this reason--that acceptance with God might be an act of pure grace,

Romans 6:12Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies, causing you to be in subjection to their cravings;

Romans 7:4So, my brethren, to you also the Law died through the incarnation of Christ, that you might be wedded to Another, namely to Him who rose from the dead in order that we might yield fruit to God.

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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