Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

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

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.

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.

Darby Translation

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

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 Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus. 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof: 13 neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto 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 upright, And I shall be clear from great transgression.

Psalm 119:133

Establish my footsteps in thy word; And let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

Romans 6:16

Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as'servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Romans 2:8

but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness,'shall be wrath and indignation,

Numbers 33:55

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

Deuteronomy 7:2

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

Joshua 23:12-13

Else if ye do at all go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you;

Judges 2:3

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 unto you.

Romans 5:21

that, as sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto 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 a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

Romans 8:11

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Romans 8:13

for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Romans 13:14

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

1 Corinthians 15:53-54

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

2 Corinthians 4:11

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

2 Corinthians 5:4

For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.

Galatians 5:16

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Galatians 5:24

And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

Ephesians 2:3

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--

Ephesians 4:22

that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;

2 Timothy 2:22

But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Titus 2:12

instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;

Titus 3:3

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

James 1:14-15

but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

James 4:1-3

Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

1 Peter 1:14

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lust, which war against the soul;

1 Peter 4:2-3

that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

1 John 2:15-17

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man 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 speaketh great swelling words ), showing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.

Jude 1:18

That they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.

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