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

12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires, 13and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness. For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace. 15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not! 16Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

Romans 6:14 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• Forγάρgar · forG1063
• sinἁμαρτίαhamartia · sinG266
• shallκυριεύωkurieuō · to lord overG2961
• notοὐou · noG3756
• youσύsu · youG4771
• ye areεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• underὑπόhupo · by/under: underG5259
• the lawνόμοςnomos · lawG3551
• butἀλλάalla · butG235
• graceχάριςcharis · graceG5485

Cross-references for Romans 6:14

• Romans 6:12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,
• Romans 5:20Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,
• Romans 8:2For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
• Psalms 130:7O Israel, hope in the Lord, for the Lord exhibits loyal love, and is more than willing to deliver.
• Micah 7:19You will once again have mercy on us; you will conquer our evil deeds; you will hurl our sins into the depths of the sea.
• Matthew 1:21She will give birth to a son and you will name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
• John 8:36So if the son sets you free, you will be really free.
• Hebrews 8:10“For this is the covenant that I will establish with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and I will inscribe them on their hearts. And I will be their God and they will be my people.
• Romans 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
• Romans 7:4So, my brothers and sisters, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you could be joined to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, to bear fruit to God.
• Galatians 3:23Now before faith came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners until the coming faith would be revealed.
• Galatians 4:4But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
• Galatians 5:18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
• Romans 6:15What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!
• Romans 4:16For this reason it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with the result that the promise may be certain to all the descendants – not only to those who are under the law, but also to those who have the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all
• Romans 5:21so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will 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