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 if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient servants you are his (voluntary) servants because you obey him? This could be obedience to sin with death in view or obedience to righteousness with holiness in view?

And what for? Just as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

However I see a different law at work in my body. This law fights against the law that my mind approves of. It makes me a prisoner to the law of sin that is at work in my body.

If you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those that are left will be as troublesome as splinters in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will fight against you.

Jehovah your God will deliver them to you. You must crush them! Completely destroy them. You should make no covenant with them. Do not show them mercy.

If you are disloyal and join with the nations that are still left among you and intermarry with them,

I also said: 'I will not drive them out from before you. They will be thorns in your sides. Their gods will snare (trap) you.'

Keep me from sinning. Do not let anyone gain control over me. Then I will be blameless, and I will be free from any great offense.

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

Mortal

If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from among the dead dwells with you, he who raised Christ from among the dead shall also make your mortal bodies alive. This is on account of his Spirit that dwells with you.

This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our mortal flesh.

While in this tabernacle we groan and sigh with prayer. We are concerned that we would be clothed with what is mortal and be swallowed up (devoured) by this life.

In the lusts

Those who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will receive wrath and indignation.

for if you live according to flesh, you are about to die. If by the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Put on (live like) (clothe yourself with) the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

We all once lived in the lust of our flesh, indulging the desires (lusts) of the flesh and of the mind. We were by nature children of anger and violent passion, like everyone else.

You put away your former way (course) (behavior) (conversation) of life, the old self that was corrupt with the lusts of deceit.

not in the lust of sexual desire like the nations who do not know God.

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

instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present age (world) (period of time).

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Each man is tempted when he is drawn away by his evil desire (lust). He is enticed (allured).

What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you?

Live as children of obedience. Do not fashion yourself according to your former lusts, for you were ignorant at that time.

Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you.

From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires (lusts).

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

These murmur, complain, and walk after their lusts, they speak arrogantly, flattering people to gain advantage.

General references

If the sore spreads after the priest has examined you and pronounced you clean, you must return to the priest again.

Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.