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

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants in obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

That as sin hath reigned to death, even so might grace reign through righteousness to eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord.

But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be prickles in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall harass you in the land in which ye dwell.

And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee, thou shalt smite them and utterly destroy them, thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them:

Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave to the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and associate with them, and they with you:

Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.

Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

Mortal

But if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised Christ from the dead will also revive your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

For 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 also of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not because we would be unclothed, but clothed, that mortality might be swallowed up in life.

In the lusts

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants in obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness; indignation and wrath:

For if ye live according to the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the lusts of flesh.

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Among whom also we all had our manner of life in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

That ye put off concerning the former manner of life the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts:

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles who know not God:

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Teaching us, that denying ungodliness, and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and piously, in this present world;

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

But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even from your lusts that war in your members?

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loveth the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

General references

But if the scab shall spread much in the skin, after he hath been seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again:

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