Romans 6:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

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  • Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
  • Gal 5:18 : 18 But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
  • Heb 8:10 : 10 For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:
  • Rom 6:12 : 12 For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;
  • Gal 3:23 : 23 But before faith came, we were kept in prison under the law, waiting for the revelation of the faith which was to come.
  • Gal 4:4-5 : 4 But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons.
  • Gal 4:21 : 21 Say, you whose desire it is to be under the law, do you not give ear to the law?
  • Rom 6:15 : 15 What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.
  • Rom 7:4-9 : 4 In the same way, my brothers, you were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, even to him who came again from the dead, so that we might give fruit to God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death. 6 But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter. 7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's. 8 But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead. 9 And there was a time when I was living without the law: but when the law gave its orders, sin came to life and put me to death; 10 And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death: 11 For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.
  • Rom 8:12 : 12 So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:
  • Rom 11:6 : 6 But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.
  • 2 Cor 3:6-9 : 6 Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life. 7 For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time: 8 Will not the operation of the Spirit have a much greater glory? 9 For if the operation of the law, producing punishment, had its glory, how much greater will be the operation of the Spirit causing righteousness?
  • Ps 130:7-8 : 7 O Israel, have hope in the Lord; for with the Lord is mercy and full salvation. 8 And he will make Israel free from all his sins.
  • Mic 7:19 : 19 He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea.
  • Matt 1:21 : 21 And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins.
  • John 1:17 : 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.
  • John 8:36 : 36 If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.
  • Rom 3:19-20 : 19 Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God: 20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
  • Rom 4:16 : 16 For this reason it is of faith, so that it may be through grace; and so that the word of God may be certain to all the seed; not only to that which is of the law, but to that which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
  • Rom 5:20-21 : 20 And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace: 21 That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.

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    15 What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

    16 Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

    17 But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;

    18 And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.

    19 I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.

    20 When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.

  • Rom 6:11-13
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    11 Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

    12 For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

    13 And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.

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    18 But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

  • Rom 6:1-2
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    1 What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?

    2 In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?

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    1 For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.

    2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

  • Rom 5:20-21
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    20 And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:

    21 That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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    5 For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

    6 But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

    7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

    8 But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.

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    14 For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

  • Rom 5:13
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    13 Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken.

  • Rom 6:22-23
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    22 But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

    23 For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • Rom 6:6-7
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    6 Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

    7 Because he who is dead is free from sin.

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    4 You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.

  • Rom 4:15
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    15 For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.

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    13 Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

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    6 But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.

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    9 Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him.

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    17 But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!

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    4 So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.

  • Eph 2:8
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    8 Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:

  • 1 Cor 15:56
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    56 The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

  • Rom 3:20
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    20 Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

  • Rom 7:17
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    17 So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

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    12 All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;

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    9 You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.

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    12 I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.

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    7 So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then the heritage of God is yours.

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    12 So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:

    13 For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

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    15 But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men.

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    19 For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.

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    9 With the knowledge that the law is made, not for the upright man, but for those who have no respect for law and order, for evil men and sinners, for the unholy and those who have no religion, for those who put their fathers or mothers to death, for takers of life,

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    24 And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus: