Romans 6:12

Modern English Version

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you do well, shall you not be accepted? But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. It desires to dominate you, but you must rule over it.”

Psalm 119:133

Direct my steps according to Your word, and let no iniquity have dominion over me.

Psalm 19:13

Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I will be upright, and I will be innocent of great transgression.

Leviticus 13:40

When a man has lost hair from his head, then he is bald. He is still 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 will be like thorns in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will show hostility to you in the land in which you live.

Romans 13:14

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill its lusts.

Romans 2:8

But for those who are contentious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be indignation and wrath.

Romans 5:21

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

Romans 6:14

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

Romans 6:16

Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as slaves to obey, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

Romans 8:11

But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that lives in you.

Romans 8:13

For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if through the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

2 Corinthians 4:11

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that also the life of Jesus might be manifested in our mortal flesh.

2 Corinthians 5:4

For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we wish to be unclothed, but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal might be swallowed up by life.

Galatians 5:16

I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Galatians 5:24

Those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Ephesians 2:3

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

Ephesians 4:22

that you put off the former way of life in the old nature, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,

Deuteronomy 7:2

and when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you strike them down, then you must utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in lustful passion, even as the Gentiles who do not know God,

2 Timothy 2:22

So flee youthful desires and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Titus 2:12

teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly, righteously, and in godliness in this present world,

Titus 3:3

We also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various desires and pleasures, living in evil and envy, filled with hatred and hating each other.

1 Peter 1:14

As obedient children do not conduct yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance.

1 Peter 2:11

Dearly beloved, I implore you as aliens and refugees, abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war against the soul.

Jude 1:16

These men are grumblers, complainers, who walk after their own lusts. Their mouths speak arrogant words, and they flatter others to gain profit.

Jude 1:18

They said to you, “In the last days there will be scoffers who will walk after their own ungodly desires.”

Judges 2:3

So now I say, ‘I will not drive them out before you. They will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’ ”