Romans 6:14
For sin shall have no power over you, inasmuch as ye are not under the law, but under grace.
1770 John Worsley NT
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
15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace?
Cross References
Matthew 1:21And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.
John 8:36If therefore the Son make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Romans 4:16And therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace, that so the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but also to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
Romans 6:12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to obey it in the lusts thereof.
Romans 7:4And thus, my brethren, ye also are dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye might become another's, even his who is raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto 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 →