Romans 6:12

American Standard Version (1901)

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

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  • Rom 6:16 : 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves [as] servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
  • Ps 19:13 : 13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous [sins] ; Let them not have dominion over me: Then shall I be upright, And I shall be clear from great transgression.
  • Ps 119:133 : 133 Establish my footsteps in thy word; And let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
  • Rom 2:8 : 8 but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [shall be] wrath and indignation,
  • Rom 5:21 : 21 that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.
  • Num 33:55 : 55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
  • Deut 7:2 : 2 and when Jehovah thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them;
  • Josh 23:12-13 : 12 Else if ye do at all go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you; 13 know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap unto you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you.
  • Judg 2:3 : 3 Wherefore 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.
  • Rom 7:23-24 : 23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?
  • Rom 8:11 : 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
  • Rom 8:13 : 13 for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
  • Rom 13:14 : 14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof] .
  • 1 Cor 15:53-54 : 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
  • 2 Cor 4:11 : 11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
  • 2 Cor 5:4 : 4 For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.
  • Gal 5:16 : 16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
  • Gal 5:24 : 24 And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.
  • Eph 2:3 : 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--
  • Eph 4:22 : 22 that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
  • 1 Thess 4:5 : 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;
  • 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
  • Titus 2:12 : 12 instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
  • Jas 1:14-15 : 14 but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.
  • Jas 4:1-3 : 1 Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.
  • 1 Pet 1:14 : 14 as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in [the time of] your ignorance:
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
  • 1 Pet 4:2-3 : 2 that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 3 For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:
  • 1 John 2:15-17 : 15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words] ), showing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.
  • Jude 1:18 : 18 That they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.

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    13neither present your members unto sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.

    14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.

    15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.

    16Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves [as] servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

  • Rom 6:9-11
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    9knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more hath dominion over him.

    10For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

    11Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.

  • Rom 6:18-23
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    18and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.

    19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members [as] servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members [as] servants to righteousness unto sanctification.

    20For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.

    21What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

    22But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.

    23For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Rom 6:6-7
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    6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;

    7for he that hath died is justified from sin.

  • 1 Pet 4:1-2
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    1Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

    2that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

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    10And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness.

    11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

    12So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:

    13for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

  • Rom 6:1-2
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    1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

    2God forbid. We who died to sin, how shall we any longer live therein?

  • Rom 13:14
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    14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof] .

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    5Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

  • 1 Cor 6:18-20
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    18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

    19Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;

    20for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

    17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary the one to the other; that ye may not do the things that ye would.

  • Rom 5:21
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    21that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • Gal 5:24
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    24And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

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    15Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.

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    17So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.

  • Rom 1:24
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    24Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:

  • Rom 12:1-2
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    1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your spiritual service.

    2And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

  • Jas 1:15
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    15Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.

  • Rom 7:7-8
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    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

    8but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin [is] dead.

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

  • Gal 6:8
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    8For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;

  • Rom 7:20
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    20But if what I would not, that I do, it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.

  • Rom 7:13
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    13Did then that which is good become death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might be shown to be sin, by working death to me through that which is good;--that through the commandment sin might become exceeding sinful.

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    6For the mind of the flesh is death; but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:

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    4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:

  • 1 Cor 10:6
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    6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

  • Rom 8:2
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    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.