Romans 6:12

New Century Version

So, do not let sin control your life here on earth so that you do what your sinful self wants to do.

Cross References

Genesis 4:7

If you do things well, I will accept you, but if you do not do them well, sin is ready to attack you. Sin wants you, but you must rule over it.”

Psalm 119:133

Guide my steps as you promised; don’t let any sin control me.

Psalm 19:13

Keep me from the sins of pride; don’t let them rule me. Then I can be pure and innocent of the greatest of sins.

Leviticus 13:40

“When anyone loses hair from his head and is bald, he is clean.

Numbers 33:55

“ ‘But if you don’t force those people out of the land, they will bring you trouble. They will be like sharp hooks in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will bring trouble to the land where you live.

Romans 13:14

But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ and forget about satisfying your sinful self.

Romans 2:8

But other people are selfish. They refuse to follow truth and, instead, follow evil. God will give them 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. And this brings life forever through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:14

Sin will not be your master, because you are not under law but under God’s grace.

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, which brings spiritual death, or you can obey God, which makes you right with him.

Romans 8:11

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

Romans 8:13

If you use your lives to do the wrong things your sinful selves want, you will die spiritually. But if you use the Spirit’s help to stop doing the wrong things you do with your body, you will have true life.

2 Corinthians 4:11

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

2 Corinthians 5:4

While we live in this body, we have burdens, and we groan. We do not want to be naked, 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. Then you will not do what your sinful selves want.

Galatians 5:24

Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified 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 them, trying to please our sinful selves and doing all the things our bodies and minds wanted. We should have suffered God’s anger because we were sinful by nature. We were the same as all other people.

Ephesians 4:22

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

Deuteronomy 7:2

The Lord your God will hand these nations over to you, and when you defeat them, you must destroy them completely. Do not make a peace treaty with them or show them any mercy.

1 Thessalonians 4:5

Don’t use your body for sexual sin like the people who do not know God.

2 Timothy 2:22

But run away from the evil desires of youth. Try hard to live right and to have faith, love, and peace, together with those who trust in the Lord from pure hearts.

Titus 2:12

It teaches us not to live against God nor to do the evil things the world wants to do. Instead, that grace teaches us to live in the present age in a wise and right way and in a way that shows we serve God.

Titus 3:3

In the past we also were foolish. We did not obey, we were wrong, and we were slaves to many things our bodies wanted and enjoyed. We spent our lives doing evil and being jealous. People hated us, and we hated each other.

1 Peter 1:14

Now that you are obedient children of God do not live as you did in the past. You did not understand, so you did the evil things you wanted.

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, you are like foreigners and strangers in this world. I beg you to avoid the evil things your bodies want to do that fight against your soul.

Jude 1:16

These people complain and blame others, doing the evil things they want to do. They brag about themselves, and they flatter others to get what they want.

Jude 1:18

They said to you, “In the last times there will be people who laugh about God, following their own evil desires which are against God.”

Judges 2:3

Now I tell you, ‘I will not force out the people in this land. They will be your enemies, and their gods will be a trap for you.’ ”