Romans 6:12

Romans 6:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
• New International Version (NIV)Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to sinful desires.

Context of Romans 6:12

10For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 6:12 word by word

Μὴ οὖν βασιλευέτω ἡ ἁμαρτία ἐν τῷ θνητῷ ὑμῶν σώματι εἰς τὸ ὑπακούειν ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις αὐτοῦ,Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Letβασιλεύωbasileuō · to reignG936
• notμήmē · notG3361
• sinἁμαρτίαhamartia · sinG266
• thereforeοὖνoun · therefore/thenG3767
• inἐνen · in/on/amongG1722
• yourσύsu · youG4771
• mortalθνητόςthnētos · mortalG2349
• bodyσῶμαsōma · bodyG4983
• that ye shouldεἰςeis · towardG1519
• obeyὑπακούωhupakouō · to obeyG5219
• itαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• the lustsἐπιθυμίαepithumia · desireG1939

Cross-references for Romans 6:12

• Romans 6:16Do 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?
• Romans 5:21so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Romans 7:23but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
• Numbers 33:55But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.
• Deuteronomy 7:2and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
• Joshua 23:12For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,
• Judges 2:3So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you."
• Psalms 19:13Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.
• Psalms 119:133Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.
• Romans 8:11If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
• 1 Corinthians 15:53For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
• 2 Corinthians 4:11For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
• 2 Corinthians 5:4For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
• Romans 2:8but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
• Romans 8:13For 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.
• Romans 13:14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Commentaries on Romans 6:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Let not sin therefore reign - This is a prosopopoeia, or personification. Sin is represented as a king, ruler, or tyrant, who has the desires of the mind and the members of the body under his control so that by influencing the passions he governs the body. Do not let sin reign, do not let him work; that is, let him have no place, no being in your souls; because, wherever he is he governs, less or more: and indeed sin is not sin without this. How is sin…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Let not sin therefore - This is a conclusion drawn from the previous train of reasoning. The result of all these considerations is, that sin should not be suffered to reign in us. Reign - Have dominion; obtain the ascendency, or rule. In your mortal body - In you. The apostle uses the word “mortal” here, perhaps, for these reasons, (1)To remind them of the tendency of the flesh to sin and corruption, as equivalent to “fleshly,” since the flesh is often…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
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. Let not sin therefore--as a Master reign--(The reader will observe that wherever in this section the words "Sin," "Obedience," "Righteousness," "Uncleanness," "Iniquity," are figuratively used, to represent a Master, they are here printed in capitals, to make this manifest to the eye, and so save explanation). in your mortal body, that ye should obey it--sin. in the lusts thereof--"the lusts of the body," as the Greek makes evident. (The other…Read the comment

Topics related to Romans 6:12

• Holiness
• Regeneration
• Righteous
• Temptation

In the dictionaries

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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