Romans 6:12

Formerly Dead To Sin, Now Alive In Christ

¹¹ in like manner consider your selves as dead to sin; but alive to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. ¹² Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, by making you slaves to the lusts thereof. ¹³ neither yield your members as instruments to iniquity: but yield yourselves unto God, as being alive after having been dead; and your members as instruments of righteousness.

For This Cause

Mortal Bodies

Mortal Body

Be Subject To

Sin

Romans 6:16

by no means. know ye not, that to whom ye subject your selves vassals at command, his vassals you are whom you thus obey; the vassals either of sin to destruction, or of obedience to justification?

Romans 2:8

but unto those who are contentious, and do not yield to the truth, but give way to injustice, indignation and wrath,

Romans 5:21

that as sin prevailed unto death, even so might the divine favour prevail by righteousness unto eternal life, thro' Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:14

for then sin shall have no dominion over you: because you are not under the legal, but under the gospel dispensation.

Romans 7:23-24

but I perceive in the animal part of me another law warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my animal part.

Romans 8:11

for if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you; he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall likewise restore your mortal bodies to life, by his spirit that dwelleth in you.

Romans 8:13

for if you lead a sensual life, you will be miserable: but if through the spirit you mortify the affections of corrupted nature, you will be happy.

Romans 13:14

but imitate the Lord Jesus Christ, and by no means indulge any sensual desires.

1 Corinthians 15:53-54

for this corruptible body must be invested with incorruptibility, this mortal be invested with immortality.

2 Corinthians 4:11

for as long as I live I shall be exposed to death for the sake of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest by the preservation of our mortal life.

2 Corinthians 5:4

we that are in this tabernacle do groan under the burden of it: not that we desire to be divested of it, but we desire to have our celestial body, that this mortal state may vanish into immortality.

Galatians 5:16

I say then, conduct yourselves by the spirit, and you will not then gratify the animal passions.

Galatians 5:24

now they who belong to Christ, have crucified the animal nature with the affections and passions thereof.

Ephesians 2:3

of which number we all have formerly been, leading our dissolute lives in gratifying the desires of our sensual imaginations: and were indeed obnoxious to the divine displeasure, as other. Gentiles were:

Ephesians 4:22

to quit the vicious habits of your former conversation, corrupted by deceitful passions:

1 Thessalonians 4:5

person unsullied by the vices of the Gentiles, who know not God:

2 Timothy 2:22

Avoid the passions of youth. pursue justice, fidelity, benevolence and concord with all sincere christians.

Titus 2:12

teaching us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and to practise temperance, justice and piety in this present world;

Titus 3:3

for even we ourselves were once inconsiderate, disobedient, deluded, addicted to variety of passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, the deserving objects of mutual hatred.

James 1:14-15

a man is instigated, and drawn into the snare by his own vicious passions, which once indulg'd, are productive of sin,

James 4:1-3

you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain.

1 Peter 1:14

as obedient children be no longer influenc'd by those passions, which were the effects of your former ignorance.

1 Peter 2:11

but at present have obtain'd it. I exhort you, my dear brethren, as strangers and travellers to avoid all sensual passions, as destructive to your

1 Peter 4:2-3

so that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts.

1 John 2:15-17

Love not the world, nor let worldly things engage your affections. he that is worldly affected is a stranger to divine love.

Jude 1:16

These are murmurers, complainers, who pursue their own passions: their language swells with flattery, which they offer to the personages of men from a prospect of gain.

Jude 1:18

for they assur'd you, there would be impostors in the last days, who would follow their own impious passions.