Romans 6:12

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Summary

Romans 6:12

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

Let not

Mortal

In the lusts

General references

Leviticus 13:7

Joshua 17:12

Bible References

Let not

Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come about that those whom you let remain of them will become as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land in which you live.

and when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them.

For if you ever go back and cling to the rest of these nations, these which remain among you, and intermarry with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,

Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; but they will become as thorns in your sides and their gods will be a snare to you.’”

Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins;
Let them not rule over me;
Then I will be

blameless,

And I shall be acquitted of great transgression.

Establish my footsteps in Your word,
And do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.

Mortal

But if 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.

For this perishable must put on

the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality.

For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life.

In the lusts

but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation.

for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.

Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,

not in

lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.

What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?

obedient children, do not

be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.

so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage.

General references

“But if the scab spreads farther on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall appear again to the priest.

But the sons of Manasseh could not take possession of these cities, because the Canaanites persisted in living in that land.