Romans 6:14

American Standard Version (1901)

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἁμαρτία γὰρ ὑμῶν οὐ κυριεύσει: οὐ γάρ ἐστε ὑπὸ νόμον, ἀλλʼ ὑπὸ χάριν.

Transliteration

For hamartia hymōn ou kyrieusei: for ou gar este under nomon, all' under charin.

Grammar Details

• *hamartia*: nominative, feminine, singular - sin
• *hymōn*: personal pronoun, genitive, 2nd person plural - your/of you
• *ou kyrieusei*: future active indicative with negative particle, 3rd person singular - will not have dominion
• *ou gar*: negative particle with conjunction - for not
• *este*: present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you are
• *hypo nomon*: prepositional phrase, accusative, masculine, singular - under law
• *all'*: strong adversative conjunction (elided form) - but
• *hypo charin*: prepositional phrase, accusative, feminine, singular - under grace

Word Meanings

• *hamartia*: sin/error/missing the mark
• *kyrieusei*: will have dominion/will rule over/will lord it over
• *nomon*: law/principle/Torah
• *charin*: grace/favor/goodwill

Referenced Verses

• Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
• Gal 5:18 : 18 But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
• Heb 8:10 : 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people:
• Rom 6:12 : 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:
• Gal 3:23 : 23 But before faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
• Gal 4:4-5 : 4 but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
• Gal 4:21 : 21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
• Rom 6:15 : 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? God forbid.
• Rom 7:4-9 : 4 Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, [even] to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. 6 But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. 7 What 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: 8 but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin [is] dead. 9 And I was alive apart from the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died; 10 and the commandment, which [was] unto life, this I found [to be] unto death: 11 for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.
• Rom 8:12 : 12 So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:
• Rom 11:6 : 6 But if it is by grace, it is no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace.
• 2 Cor 3:6-9 : 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 7 But if the ministration of death, written, [and] engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which [glory] was passing away: 8 how shall not rather the ministration of the spirit be with glory? 9 For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
• Ps 130:7-8 : 7 O Israel, hope in Jehovah; For with Jehovah there is lovingkindness, And with him is plenteous redemption. 8 And he will redeem Israel From all his iniquities.
• Mic 7:19 : 19 He will again have compassion upon us; he will tread our iniquities under foot; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
• Matt 1:21 : 21 And she shall bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name JESUS; for it is he that shall save his people from their sins.
• John 1:17 : 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
• John 8:36 : 36 If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
• Rom 3:19-20 : 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God: 20 because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law [cometh] the knowledge of sin.
• Rom 4:16 : 16 For this cause [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
• Rom 5:20-21 : 20 And the law came in besides, that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace did abound more exceedingly: 21 that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.