Romans 6:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey its lusts.

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  • Rom 6:16 : 16 Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as servants to obey, you are the servants of the one whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
  • Ps 19:13 : 13 Keep your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me. Then shall I be upright, and shall be innocent from the great transgression.
  • Ps 119:133 : 133 Direct my steps by Your word, and let no iniquity have dominion over me.
  • Rom 2:8 : 8 But to those who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
  • Rom 5:21 : 21 So that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law but under grace.
  • Num 33:55 : 55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them shall become irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.
  • Deut 7:2 : 2 And when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you; you shall strike them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them:
  • Josh 23:12-13 : 12 Otherwise, if you do at all turn back, and join to the remnant of these nations, even those that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you: 13 Know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
  • Judg 2:3 : 3 Therefore 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 to you.
  • Rom 7:23-24 : 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
  • Rom 8:11 : 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
  • Rom 8:13 : 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
  • Rom 13:14 : 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
  • 1 Cor 15:53-54 : 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought 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 of Jesus also might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
  • 2 Cor 5:4 : 4 For we who are in this tabernacle groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, so that mortality might be swallowed up by life.
  • Gal 5:16 : 16 I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
  • Gal 5:24 : 24 And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
  • Eph 2:3 : 3 Among whom also we all had our conduct in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
  • Eph 4:22 : 22 That you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
  • 1 Thess 4:5 : 5 Not in passionate lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God:
  • 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
  • Titus 2:12 : 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
  • Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed. 15 Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin: and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
  • Jas 4:1-3 : 1 From where do wars and fights among you come? Do they not come from your desires that war within your members? 2 You desire and do not have; you kill, and covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and war, yet you do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, that you may spend it on your desires.
  • 1 Pet 1:14 : 14 As obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance;
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dearly beloved, I urge you as strangers and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul;
  • 1 Pet 4:2-3 : 2 That he should no longer live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have done the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in sensuality, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
  • 1 John 2:15-17 : 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage.
  • Jude 1:18 : 18 How they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.

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    13 And do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

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

    15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Certainly not.

    16 Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as servants to obey, you are the servants of the one whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

  • Rom 6:9-11
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    9 Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has dominion over Him.

    10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.

    11 Likewise, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • Rom 6:18-23
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    18 And having been set free from sin, you became servants of righteousness.

    19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as servants of uncleanness and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as servants of righteousness for holiness.

    20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.

    21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

    22 But now, having been freed from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.

    23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • Rom 6:6-7
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    6 Knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

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    1 Since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind: for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;

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

    11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

    12 Therefore, brothers, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.

    13 For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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

    2 Certainly not. How shall we who are dead to sin live any longer in it?

  • 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

  • 5 Therefore, put to death your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

  • 5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit to death.

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    18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

    19 What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own?

    20 For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

  • Gal 5:16-17
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    16 I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

    17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you cannot do the things that you wish.

  • 21 So that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • 24 And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

  • 15 Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid.

  • 17 Now then it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

  • 24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves,

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    1 I implore you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

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

  • 15 Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin: and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

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    7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not. Indeed, I would not have known sin except through the law: for I would not have known lust unless the law had said, 'You shall not covet.'

    8 But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of covetousness. For without the law, sin was dead.

  • 13 Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

  • 8 For he who sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

  • 5 Not in passionate lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God:

  • 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

  • 13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? Certainly not. But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good; that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.

  • 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

  • 4 You have not yet resisted to the point of bloodshed, striving against sin.

  • 6 Now these things were our examples, so we should not desire evil things, as they also desired.

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