Romans 6:12

Formerly Dead To Sin, Now Alive In Christ

¹¹ So let it be with you-regard yourselves as dead to sin, but as living for God, through union with Christ Jesus. ¹² Therefore do not let Sin reign in your mortal bodies and compel you to obey its cravings. ¹³ Do not offer any part of your bodies to Sin, in the cause of unrighteousness, but once for all offer yourselves to God (as those who, though once dead, now have Life), and devote every part of your bodies to the cause of righteousness.

For This Cause

Mortal Bodies

Mortal Body

Be Subject To

Sin

Romans 6:16

Surely you know that, when you offer yourselves as servants, to obey any one, you are the servants of the person whom you obey, whether the service be that of Sin which leads to Death, or that of Duty which leads to Righteousness.

Romans 2:8

While as to those who are factious, and disobedient to Truth but obedient to Evil, wrath and anger, distress and despair,

Romans 5:21

In order than, just as Sin had reigned in the realm of Death, so, too, might Loving-kindness reign through righteousness, and result in Immortal Life, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Romans 6:14

For Sin shall not lord it over you. You are living under the reign, not of Law, but of Love.

Romans 7:23-24

But throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavors to make me a prisoner to that law of Sin which exists throughout my body.

Romans 8:11

And, if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives within you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give Life even to your mortal bodies, through his Spirit living within you.

Romans 8:13

If you live in obedience to your earthly nature, you will inevitably die; but if, by the power of the Spirit, you put an end to the evil habits of the body, you will live.

Romans 13:14

No! Arm yourselves with the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, and spend no thought on your earthly nature, to satisfy its cravings.

1 Corinthians 15:53-54

For this perishable body of ours must put on an imperishable form, and this dying body a deathless form.

2 Corinthians 4:11

Indeed, we who still live are continually being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the Life also of Jesus may be exhibited in our mortal nature.

2 Corinthians 5:4

For we who are in this 'tent' sigh under our burden, unwilling to take it off, yet wishing to put our heavenly body over it, so that all that is mortal may be absorbed in Life.

Galatians 5:16

This is what I have to say--Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and then you will never gratify the cravings of your earthly nature.

Galatians 5:24

And those who belong to Jesus, the Christ, have already crucified their earthly nature, with its passions and its cravings.

Ephesians 2:3

And it was among them that we all once lived our lives, indulging the cravings of our earthly nature, and carrying out the desires prompted by that earthly nature and by our own thoughts. Our very nature exposed us to the Divine Wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Ephesians 4:22

For you learned with regard to your former way of living that you must cast off your old nature, which, yielding to deluding passions, grows corrupt;

1 Thessalonians 4:5

And not for the mere gratification of his passions, like the Gentiles who know nothing of God;

2 Timothy 2:22

Flee from the passions of youth, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in the company of those who, with a pure heart, invoke the Lord.

Titus 2:12

leading us to renounce irreligious ways and worldly ambitions, and to live discreet, upright, and religious lives here in this present world,

Titus 3:3

There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.

James 1:14-15

A man is in every case tempted by his own passions--allured and enticed by them.

James 4:1-3

What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?

1 Peter 1:14

Be like obedient children; do not let your lives be shaped by the passions which once swayed you in the days of your ignorance,

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, I urge you, as pilgrims and strangers upon earth, to refrain from indulging the cravings of your earthly nature, for they make war upon the soul.

1 Peter 4:2-3

and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.

1 John 2:15-17

Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When any one loves the world, there is no love for the Father in him;

Jude 1:16

These men are always murmuring, and complaining of their lot; they follow where their passions lead them; they have arrogant words upon their lips; and they flatter men for the sake of what they can get from them.

Jude 1:18

how they used to say to you-- 'As time draws to an end, there will be scoffers, who will be led by their godless passions.'