Romans 6:12

Believers must not let sin rule their mortal bodies or obey its desires. Since sin's dominion is broken, we are to refuse its claims.

Cross-references · 33

• Gal 5:16So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
• Rom 6:16Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?
• Gal 5:24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
• Rom 8:13For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
• 1 Jn 2:15–17Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• Ps 19:13Keep Your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless and cleansed of great transgression.
• 2 Tim 2:22Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• 1 Pet 2:11Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
• 2 Cor 4:11For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body.
• Eph 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
• Titus 2:12It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
• 1 Pet 4:2–3Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
• Rom 2:8But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
• Rom 13:14Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
• Eph 2:3All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
• 1 Cor 15:53–54For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
• Jas 1:14–15But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.
• 1 Pet 1:14As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
• Num 33:55But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.
• Jude 1:18when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”
• Ps 119:133Order my steps in Your word; let no sin rule over me.
• Rom 8:11And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.
• Rom 7:23–24But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.
• Deut 7:2and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
• Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• Rom 5:21so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• 1 Th 4:5not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
• Judg 2:3So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”
• Rom 6:14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
• Jas 4:1–3What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
• Josh 23:12–13For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
• Jude 1:16These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.
• 2 Cor 5:4So while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life.

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