Romans 6:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door: and unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

Psalm 119:133

Order my footsteps in thy word; And let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

Psalm 19:13

Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be perfect, And I shall be clear from great transgression.

Leviticus 13:40

And if a man's hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.

Numbers 33:55

But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then shall those which ye let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

Romans 13:14

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.

Romans 2:8

but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation,

Romans 5:21

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

Romans 6:14

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

Romans 6:16

Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Romans 8:11

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall quicken also your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Romans 8:13

for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

2 Corinthians 4:11

For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

2 Corinthians 5:4

For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.

Galatians 5:16

But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Galatians 5:24

And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

Ephesians 2:3

among whom we also all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--

Ephesians 4:22

that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, which waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

Deuteronomy 7:2

and when the LORD thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles which know not God;

2 Timothy 2:22

But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Titus 2:12

instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;

Titus 3:3

For we also were aforetime foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

1 Peter 1:14

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Jude 1:16

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaketh great swelling words), shewing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.

Jude 1:18

how that they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.

Judges 2:3

Wherefore 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 unto you.