Romans 6:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies, so that you obey their desires.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Let not sin therefore rule as king in your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies, to make you yield to its cravings and be subject to its lusts and evil passions.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

Common English Bible

¹² So then, don’t let sin rule your body, so that you do what it wants.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body, such that you would obey its desires.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Let no sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.

Romans 6:12 Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.”

Psalm 119:133

Keep my steps steady according to your promise, and never let iniquity have dominion over me.

Psalm 19:13

Keep back your servant also from the insolent; do not let them have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

Leviticus 13:40

“If anyone loses the hair from his head, he is bald, but he is clean.

Numbers 33:55

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they shall trouble you in the land where you are settling.

Romans 13:14

Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Romans 2:8

while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but injustice, there will be wrath and fury.

Romans 5:21

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so grace might also reign through justification leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:14

For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 6:16

Do you not know that, if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

Romans 8:11

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you.

Romans 8:13

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.

2 Corinthians 4:11

For we who are living are always being handed over to death for Jesus’s sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal flesh.

2 Corinthians 5:4

For while we are in this tent, we groan under our burden because we wish not to be unclothed but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Galatians 5:16

Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Galatians 5:24

And those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Ephesians 2:3

All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,

Ephesians 4:22

to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts,

Deuteronomy 7:2

and when the Lord your God gives them over to you and you defeat them, then you must utterly destroy them. Make no covenant with them and show them no mercy.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not with lustful passion, like the gentiles who do not know God;

2 Timothy 2:22

Shun youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Titus 2:12

training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly,

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.

1 Peter 1:14

Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.

Jude 1:16

These are grumblers and malcontents; they indulge their lusts; their mouths utter bombastic nonsense, flattering people to their own advantage.

Jude 1:18

for they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, indulging their own ungodly lusts.”

Judges 2:3

So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become adversaries to you, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”