Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.

New American Standard Bible

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires.

International Standard Version

Therefore, do not let sin rule your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires.

A Conservative Version

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body in order to obey it, in its lusts.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts and passions.

An Understandable Version

So, do not allow [the practice of] sin to rule your mortal bodies, so that you obey its desires.

Anderson New Testament

Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey it;

Bible in Basic English

For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

Common New Testament

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you obey its passions.

Daniel Mace New Testament

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, by making you slaves to the lusts thereof.

Godbey New Testament

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you should obey the lusts of it:

Goodspeed New Testament

So sin must not reign over your mortal bodies, and make you obey their cravings,

John Wesley New Testament

Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in the desires thereof.

Julia Smith Translation

Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, to listen to it in its passions.

King James 2000

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that [you] obey its desires,

Modern King James verseion

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Let not sin reign therefore in your mortal bodies, that ye should thereunto obey in the lusts of it.

Moffatt New Testament

Sin is not to reign, then, over your mortal bodies and make you obey their passions;

Montgomery New Testament

Therefore let not sin rule as king in your mortal body, compelling you to obey its lusts.

NET Bible

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,

New Heart English Bible

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

Noyes New Testament

Let not then sin reign in your mortal body, bringing you into subjection to its lusts,

Sawyer New Testament

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to obey its desires,

The Emphasized Bible

Let not sin, therefore, reign in your death-doomed body, that ye should be obedient to its covetings;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

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

Twentieth Century New Testament

Therefore do not let Sin reign in your mortal bodies and compel you to obey its cravings.

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies, causing you to be in subjection to their cravings;

Williams New Testament

Accordingly, sin must not continue to reign over your mortal bodies, so as to make you continue to obey their evil desires,

World English Bible

Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

Worrell New Testament

Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey its desires;

Worsley New Testament

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

Youngs Literal Translation

Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Let
βασιλεύω 
Basileuo 
Usage: 19

not
μή 
me 
not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,
Usage: 493

sin
ἁμαρτία 
Hamartia 
Usage: 143

οὖν 
Oun 
therefore, then, so, and, now, wherefore, but, not tr,
Usage: 417

βασιλεύω 
Basileuo 
Usage: 19

in
ἐν 
En 
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128
Usage: 2128

ὑμῶν 
Humon 
your, you, ye, yours, not tr.,
Usage: 371

θνητός 
Thnetos 
Usage: 6

σῶμα 
Soma 
Usage: 123

εἰς 
Eis 
into, to, unto, for, in, on, toward, against,
Usage: 1267

ὑπακούω 
Hupakouo 
Usage: 20

it

Usage: 0

the lusts
ἐπιθυμία 
Epithumia 
Usage: 35

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Romans 6:12

References

Images Romans 6:12

Context Readings

Formerly Dead To Sin, Now Alive In Christ

11 So also ye, reckon yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts. 13 Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God.

Cross References

Psalm 19:13

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

Psalm 119:133

Establish my steps in thy word; and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

Romans 6:16

Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Romans 2:8

But to those that are contentious, and are disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there shall be wrath and indignation,

Numbers 33:55

But if ye will not dispossess the inhabitants of the land from before you, those that ye let remain of them shall be thorns in your eyes, and pricks in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land wherein ye dwell.

Deuteronomy 7:2

and when Jehovah thy God shall give them up before thee and thou shalt smite them, then shalt thou utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them.

Joshua 23:12-13

For if ye in any wise go back, and cleave unto the residue of these nations, these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and come in unto them and they unto you:

Judges 2:3

So now I say, I will not drive them out before you; but they shall become adversaries to you, and their gods shall be a snare to you."

Romans 5:21

in order that, even as sin has reigned in the power of death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:14

For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under law but under grace.

Romans 7:23-24

but I see another law in my members, warring in opposition to the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which exists in my members.

Romans 8:11

But if the Spirit of him that has raised up Jesus from among the dead dwell in you, he that has raised up Christ from among the dead shall quicken your mortal bodies also on account of his Spirit which dwells in you.

Romans 8:13

for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live:

Romans 13:14

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not take forethought for the flesh to fulfil its lusts.

1 Corinthians 15:53-54

For this corruptible must needs put on incorruptibility, and this mortal put on immortality.

2 Corinthians 4:11

for we who live are always delivered unto death on account of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh;

2 Corinthians 5:4

For indeed we who are in the tabernacle groan, being burdened; while yet we do not wish to be unclothed, but clothed, that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Galatians 5:16

But I say, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall no way fulfil flesh's lust.

Galatians 5:24

But they that are of the Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts.

Ephesians 2:3

among whom we also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:

Ephesians 4:22

namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;

1 Thessalonians 4:5

(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

2 Timothy 2:22

But youthful lusts flee, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those that call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

Titus 2:12

teaching us that, having denied impiety and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, and justly, and piously in the present course of things,

Titus 3:3

For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

James 1:14-15

But every one is tempted, drawn away, and enticed by his own lust;

James 4:1-3

Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?

1 Peter 1:14

as children of obedience, not conformed to your former lusts in your ignorance;

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

1 Peter 4:2-3

no longer to live the rest of his time in the flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will.

1 John 2:15-17

Love not the world, nor the things in the world. If any one love the world, the love of the Father is not in him;

Jude 1:16

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts; and their mouth speaks swelling words, admiring persons for the sake of profit.

Jude 1:18

that they said to you, that at the end of the time there should be mockers, walking after their own lusts of ungodlinesses.

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