Devine Scripture

Romans 6:12

Romans chapter 6 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

Context

v.11Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.

v.12This passage

v.13neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 7:2

    and when Jehovah thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them;

  • Jude 1:18

    that they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.

  • Romans 8:13

    for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

  • 2 Timothy 2:22

    But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

  • Romans 6:14

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

  • 1 John 2:15

    Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.