Romans 6:12

Easy To Read Version

But don’t let sin control you in your life here on earth. You must not be ruled by the things your sinful self makes you want to do.

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you do good things, you will be right with me. Then I will accept you. But if you do wrong things, then that sin is in your life. Your sin will want to control you, but you must control that sin.” [27]

Psalm 119:133

Lord, guide me like you promised.\par Don’t let anything bad happen to me.\par

Psalm 19:13

Don’t let me do the sins I want to do.\par Don’t let those sins rule me.\par If you help me, then I can be pure\par and free from my sins.\par

Leviticus 13:40

“A man might lose hair from his head. He is clean. It is only baldness.

Numbers 33:55

“You must force those other people to leave the country. If you let those people stay in your country, then they will bring many troubles to you. They will be like stickers in your eyes and they will be like thorns in your side. They will bring many troubles to the country where you will be living.

Romans 13:14

But become like the Lord Jesus Christ, so when people see what you do, they will see Christ. Don’t think about how to satisfy your sinful self and the bad things you want to do.

Romans 2:8

But other people are selfish and refuse to follow truth. Those people follow evil. God will give those people his punishment and anger.

Romans 5:21

Sin once used death to rule us. But God gave people more of his grace so that grace could rule by making people right with him. This brings life forever through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:14

Sin will not be your master. Why? Because you are not under law. You now live under God’s grace (kindness).

Romans 6:16

Surely you know that when you give yourselves like slaves to obey someone, then you are really slaves of that person. The person you obey is your master. You can follow sin, or obey God. Sin brings spiritual death. But obeying God makes you right with him.

Romans 8:11

God raised Jesus from death. And if God’s Spirit is living in you, then he will also give life to your bodies that die. God is the One who raised Christ from death. And he will give life to your bodies through his Spirit that lives in you.

Romans 8:13

If you use your lives to do the wrong things your sinful selves want, then you will die spiritually. But if you use the Spirit’s {\cf2\super [64]} help to stop doing the wrong things you do with your body, then you will have \{true\} life.

2 Corinthians 4:11

We are alive, but for Jesus we are always in danger of death. This happens to us so that the life of Jesus can be seen in our bodies that die.

2 Corinthians 5:4

While we live in this tent (body), we have burdens and we complain. I don’t mean that we want to remove this tent (body). But we want to be clothed \{with our heavenly home\}. Then this body that dies will be fully covered with life.

Galatians 5:16

So I tell you: Live by following the Spirit. {\cf2\super [71]} Then you will not do the evil things your sinful selves want.

Galatians 5:24

Those people who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified (killed) their own sinful selves. They have given up their old selfish feelings and the evil things they wanted to do.

Ephesians 2:3

In the past, all of us lived like those people. We lived trying to please our sinful selves. We did all the things our bodies and minds wanted. We were \{evil\} people. We should have suffered God’s anger because of the way we were. We were the same as all other people.

Ephesians 4:22

You were taught to leave your old self. This means that you must stop living the evil way you lived before. That old self becomes worse and worse, because people are fooled by the evil things they want to do.

Deuteronomy 7:2

The Lord your God will put these nations under your power. And you will defeat them. You must destroy them completely. Don’t make an agreement with them. Don’t show them mercy.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

Don’t let your physical desires control you. The people of the world who don’t know God do that.

2 Timothy 2:22

Stay away from the evil things a young person wants to do. Try very hard to live right and to have faith, love, and peace. Do these things together with those people who have pure hearts and trust in the Lord.

Titus 2:12

That grace teaches us not to live against God and not to do the bad things the world wants to do. That grace teaches us to live on earth now in a wise and right way—a way that shows that we serve God.

Titus 3:3

Grace (kindness) and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 1:14

In the past you did not understand about these things, so you did the evil things you wanted. But now you are children \{of God\} who obey. So don’t live like you lived in the past.

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, you are like visitors and strangers \{in this world\}. So I beg you to stay away from the evil things your bodies want to do. These things fight against your soul.

Judges 2:3

“Now I will tell you this, ‘I will not force the other people to leave this land any longer. These people will become a problem for you. They will be like a trap to you. Their false gods will become like a net to trap you.’”