Romans 6:12

Conservative English Version

Don't let sin rule your body. After all, your body is bound to die, so don't obey its desires

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you had done the right thing, you would be smiling. But you did the wrong thing, and now sin is waiting to attack you like a lion. Sin wants to destroy you, but don't let it!

Psalm 119:133

Keep your promise and don't let me stumble or let sin control my life.

Psalm 19:13

Don't let me do wrong on purpose, Lord, or let sin have control over my life. Then I will be innocent, and not guilty of some terrible fault.

Leviticus 13:40

If you become bald on any part of your head, you are still clean.

Numbers 33:55

If you don't force out all the people there, they will be like pointed sticks in your eyes and thorns in your back. They will always be trouble for you,

Romans 13:14

Let the Lord Jesus Christ be as near to you as the clothes you wear. Then you won't try to satisfy your selfish desires.

Romans 2:8

But he will show how angry and furious he can be with every selfish person who rejects the truth and wants to do evil.

Romans 5:21

Sin ruled by means of death. But God's kindness now rules, and God has accepted us because of Jesus Christ our Lord. This means that we will have eternal life.

Romans 6:14

Don't let sin keep ruling your lives. You are ruled by God's kindness and not by the Law.

Romans 6:16

Don't you know that you are slaves of anyone you obey? You can be slaves of sin and die, or you can be obedient slaves of God and be acceptable to him.

Romans 8:11

Yet God raised Jesus to life! God's Spirit now lives in you, and he will raise you to life by his Spirit.

Romans 8:13

If you do, you will die. But you will live, if by the help of God's Spirit you say "No" to your desires.

2 Corinthians 4:11

(SEE 4:10)

2 Corinthians 5:4

These tents we now live in are like a heavy burden, and we groan. But we don't do this just because we want to leave these bodies that will die. It is because we want to change them for bodies that will never die.

Galatians 5:16

If you are guided by the Spirit, you won't obey your selfish desires.

Galatians 5:24

And because we belong to Christ Jesus, we have killed our selfish feelings and desires.

Ephesians 2:3

Once we were also ruled by the selfish desires of our bodies and minds. We had made God angry, and we were going to be punished like everyone else.

Ephesians 4:22

You were told that your foolish desires will destroy you and that you must give up your old way of life with all its bad habits.

Deuteronomy 7:2

the LORD will force them out of the land. Then you must destroy them without mercy. Don't make any peace treaties with them,

1 Thessalonians 4:5

Don't be a slave of your desires or live like people who don't know God.

2 Timothy 2:22

Run from temptations that capture young people. Always do the right thing. Be faithful, loving, and easy to get along with. Worship with people whose hearts are pure.

Titus 2:12

He taught us to give up our wicked ways and our worldly desires and to live decent and honest lives in this world.

Titus 3:3

We used to be stupid, disobedient, and foolish, as well as slaves of all sorts of desires and pleasures. We were evil and jealous. Everyone hated us, and we hated everyone.

1 Peter 1:14

Behave like obedient children. Don't let your lives be controlled by your desires, as they used to be.

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, you are foreigners and strangers on this earth. So I beg you not to surrender to those desires that fight against you.

Jude 1:16

These people grumble and complain and live by their own selfish desires. They brag about themselves and flatter others to get what they want.

Jude 1:18

They told you that near the end of time, selfish and godless people would start making fun of God.

Judges 2:3

And so, I'll stop helping you defeat your enemies. Instead, they will be there to trap you into worshiping their idols.