If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.”
Romans 6:12 - New Revised Standard Version Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof: Common English Bible So then, don’t let sin rule your body, so that you do what it wants. Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body, such that you would obey its desires. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Let no sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof. |
If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is lurking at the door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.”
Keep my steps steady according to your promise, and never let iniquity have dominion over me.
Keep back your servant also from the insolent; do not let them have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.
But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they shall trouble you in the land where you are settling.
Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.
so that, just as sin exercised dominion in death, so grace might also exercise dominion through justification leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that dwells in you.
for if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
For while we live, we are always being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be made visible in our mortal flesh.
For while we are still in this tent, we groan under our burden, because we wish not to be unclothed but to be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
Live by the Spirit, I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh.
And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else.
You were taught to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts,
and when the Lord your God gives them over to you and you defeat them, then you must utterly destroy them. Make no covenant with them and show them no mercy.
Shun youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly,
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.
Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.
These are grumblers and malcontents; they indulge their own lusts; they are bombastic in speech, flattering people to their own advantage.
for they said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, indulging their own ungodly lusts.”
So now I say, I will not drive them out before you; but they shall become adversaries to you, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”