Romans 6:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.”
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“Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Romans 6:12 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 13:40Now if a man loses his hair and is bald, he is still clean.
- Numbers 33:55But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.
- Deuteronomy 7:2and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
- Joshua 23:12For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
- Judges 2:3So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”
- Psalms 19:13Keep Your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless and cleansed of great transgression.
- Psalms 119:133Order my steps in Your word; let no sin rule over me.
- Romans 2:8But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
- Romans 5:21so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Romans 6:14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
- Romans 6:16Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?
- Romans 7:23But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.
- Romans 8:11And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.
- Romans 8:13For 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.
- Romans 13:14Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
- 1 Corinthians 15:53For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
- 2 Corinthians 4:11For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.
- 2 Corinthians 5:4So while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life.
- Galatians 5:16So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
- Galatians 5:24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
- Ephesians 2:3All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
- Ephesians 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
- 1 Thessalonians 4:5not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
- 2 Timothy 2:22Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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