Romans 6:14

Romans 6:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
• New International Version (NIV)For sin shall no longer be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Context of Romans 6:14

12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts. 13Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among [the] dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under law but under grace. 15What then? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought. 16Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Romans 6:14 word by word

ἁμαρτία γὰρ ὑμῶν οὐ κυριεύσει· οὐ γάρ ἐστε ὑπὸ νόμον ἀλλ᾽ ὑπὸ χάριν.¶Read the interlinear

• sinἁμαρτίαhamartia · sinG266
• areεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• lawνόμοςnomos · lawG3551
• graceχάριςcharis · graceG5485

Cross-references for Romans 6:14

• Romans 6:12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.
• Romans 5:20But law came in, in order that the offence might abound; but where sin abounded grace has overabounded,
• Romans 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.
• Psalms 130:7Let Israel hope in Jehovah, because with Jehovah there is loving-kindness, and with him is plenteous redemption;
• Micah 7:19He will yet again have compassion on us, he will tread under foot our iniquities: and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
• Matthew 1:21And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.
• John 8:36If therefore the Son shall set you free, ye shall be really free.
• Hebrews 8:10Because this [is] the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for people.
• Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to God.
• Romans 7:4So that, my brethren, ye also have been made dead to the law by the body of the Christ, to be to another, who has been raised up from among [the] dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
• Galatians 3:23But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up to faith [which was] about to be revealed.
• Galatians 4:4but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, come of woman, come under law,
• Galatians 5:18but if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under law.
• Romans 6:15What then? should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Far be the thought.
• Romans 4:16Therefore [it is] on the principle of faith, that [it might be] according to grace, in order to the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that only which [is] of the law, but to that also which [is] of Abraham's faith, who is father of us all,
• Romans 5:21in order that, even as sin has reigned in [the power of] death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Commentaries on Romans 6:14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14Sin shall not have dominion over you - God delivers you from it; and if you again become subject to it, it will be the effect of your own choice or negligence. Ye are not under the law - That law which exacts obedience, without giving power to obey; that condemns every transgression and every unholy thought without providing for the extirpation of evil or the pardon of sin. But under grace - Ye are under the merciful and beneficent dispensation of the…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14For sin … - The propensity or inclination to sin. Shall not have dominion - Shall not reign, Romans 5:12; Romans 6:6. This implies that sin ought not to have this dominion; and it also expresses the conviction of the apostle that it would not have this rule over Christians. For we are not under law - We who are Christians are not subject to that law where sin is excited, and where it rages unsubdued. But it may be asked here, What is meant by this…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 11-15Verses 11-15 The strongest motives against sin, and to enforce holiness, are here stated. Being made free from the reign of sin, alive unto God, and having the prospect of eternal life, it becomes believers to be greatly concerned to advance thereto. But, as unholy lusts are not quite rooted out in this life, it must be the care of the Christian to resist their motions, earnestly striving, that, through Divine grace, they may not prevail in this mortal…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14You are not under law: With the coming of Christ, the period ruled by the law of Moses came to an end (see Galatians 3:19–25). under grace: God has always acted toward his people with grace. However, grace now rules the new era in which Christians live in Christ. Compare John 1:17.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. For Sin shall not have dominion over you--as the slaves of a tyrant lord. for ye are not under the law, but under grace--The force of this glorious assurance can only be felt by observing the grounds on which it rests. To be "under the law" is, first, to be under its claim to entire obedience; and so, next under its curse for the breach of these. And as all power to obey can reach the sinner only through Grace, of which the law knows nothing, it…Read the comment

Topics related to Romans 6:14

• Holiness
• Regeneration
• Righteous
• Temptation

In the dictionaries

• Destroy
• Fruit
• Grace
• Newness
• Obey
• Reign
• Sin
• Wages
• Works, Good
• Baptismal Regeneration

Commentaries on Romans 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings