Romans 6:12

Amplified Bible

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

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
But don't let sin control your life here on earth. You must not be ruled by the things your sinful self makes you want to do.

Revised Standard Version
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Let not synne raygne therfore in youre mortall bodyes that ye shuld thervnto obey in the lustes of it.

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

International Standard Version
Therefore, do not let sin rule your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires.Psalm 19:13; 119:133;">[xr]

New American Standard Bible
Therefore sin is not to reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,

New Century Version
So, do not let sin control your life here on earth so that you do what your sinful self wants to do.

Update Bible Version
Don't let sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey the desires thereof:

Webster's Bible Translation
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts of it.

English Standard Version
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.

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

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in the desires thereof.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor regne not synne in youre deedli bodi, that ye obeische to hise coueityngis.

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

Berean Standard Bible
Therefore do not let sin control your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

Contemporary English Version
Don't let sin rule your body. After all, your body is bound to die, so don't obey its desires

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

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;

Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore, do not let sin rule in your mortal bodies, so that it makes you obey its desires;

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

Etheridge Translation
Let not sin then reign in your dead body, as that you may obey the lusts of it:

Murdock Translation
Therefore let not sin reign in your dead body, so that ye obey its lusts.

King James Version (1611)
Let not sinne reigne therfore in your mortall body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

New Living Translation
Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to sinful desires.

New Life Bible
So do not let sin have power over your body here on earth. You must not obey the body and let it do what it wants to do.

New Revised Standard
Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Let not sinne reigne therefore in your mortal body, yt ye should obey it in ye lusts therof:

George Lamsa Translation
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Let not sin, therefore, reign in your death-doomed body, that ye should be obedient to its covetings;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Let not sinne raigne therefore in your mortall bodie, that ye shoulde thervnto obey by the lustes of it.

Good News Translation
Sin must no longer rule in your mortal bodies, so that you obey the desires of your natural self.

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

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

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

Literal Translation
Then do not let sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its lusts.

Young's Literal Translation
Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Let not synne reigne therfore in youre mortall bodye, that ye shulde obeye vnto the lustes of it.

Mace New Testament (1729)
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, by making you slaves to the lusts thereof.

THE MESSAGE
That means you must not give sin a vote in the way you conduct your lives. Don't give it the time of day. Don't even run little errands that are connected with that old way of life. Throw yourselves wholeheartedly and full-time—remember, you've been raised from the dead!—into God's way of doing things. Sin can't tell you how to live. After all, you're not living under that old tyranny any longer. You're living in the freedom of God.

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

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

Simplified Cowboy Version
Don't let sin have the reins of your life. Don't give in to those sinful desires you'll regret later.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,

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

Contextual Overview

¹What shall we say [to all this]? Should we continue in sin and practice sin as a habit so that [God's gift of] grace may increase and overflow? ²Certainly not! How can we, the very ones who died to sin, continue to live in it any longer? ³Or are you ignorant of the fact that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? ⁴We have therefore been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory and power of the Father, we too might walk habitually in newness of life [abandoning our old ways]. ⁵For if we have become one with Him [permanently united] in the likeness of His death, we will also certainly be [one with Him and share fully] in the likeness of His resurrection. ⁶We know that our old self [our human nature without the Holy Spirit] was nailed to the cross with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin. ⁷For the person who has died [with Christ] has been freed from [the power of] sin. ⁸Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live [together] with Him, ⁹because we know [the self-evident truth] that Christ, having been raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has power over Him. ¹⁰For the death that He died, He died to sin [ending its power and paying the sinner's debt] once and for all; and the life that He lives, He lives to [glorify] God [in unbroken fellowship with Him].

Bible Verse Review
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Let not: Romans 6:16, Romans 5:21, Romans 7:23, Romans 7:24, Numbers 33:55, Deuteronomy 7:2, Joshua 23:12, Joshua 23:13, Judges 2:3, Psalms 19:13, Psalms 119:133

mortal: Romans 8:11, 1 Corinthians 15:53, 1 Corinthians 15:54, 2 Corinthians 4:11, 2 Corinthians 5:4

in the lusts: Romans 6:16, Romans 2:8, Romans 8:13, Romans 13:14, Galatians 5:16, Galatians 5:24, Ephesians 2:3, Ephesians 4:22, 1 Thessalonians 4:5, 2 Timothy 2:22, Titus 2:12, Titus 3:3, James 1:14, James 1:15, James 4:1-3, 1 Peter 1:14, 1 Peter 2:11, 1 Peter 4:2, 1 Peter 4:3, 1 John 2:15-17, Jude 1:16, Jude 1:18

Reciprocal: Leviticus 13:7 - General Leviticus 13:40 - hair is fallen off his head Joshua 17:12 - General John 8:34 - Whosoever Romans 1:24 - through the lusts Romans 6:6 - that henceforth Romans 6:14 - sin Romans 7:21 - a law 1 Corinthians 6:13 - but for 1 Corinthians 6:18 - Flee 2 Corinthians 5:10 - in 2 Corinthians 5:15 - that they 2 Peter 2:19 - they themselves

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
Now it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,

Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and desirable; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose and desired.

Genesis 6:3
Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive and remain with man forever, because he is indeed flesh [sinful, corrupt—given over to sensual appetites]; nevertheless his days shall yet be a hundred and twenty years."

Genesis 6:4
There were Nephilim (men of stature, notorious men) on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God lived with the daughters of men, and they gave birth to their children. These were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown (great reputation, fame).

Genesis 6:5
The LORD saw that the wickedness (depravity) of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination or intent of the thoughts of his heart were only evil continually.

Genesis 6:8
But Noah found favor and grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Genesis 6:13
God said to Noah, "I intend to make an end of all that lives, for through men the land is filled with violence; and behold, I am about to destroy them together with the land.

Genesis 6:14
"Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; make in it rooms (stalls, pens, coops, nests, cages, compartments) and coat it inside and out with pitch (bitumen).

Genesis 6:15
"This is the way you are to make it: the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits (450' x 75' x 45').

Genesis 6:16
"You shall make a window [for light and ventilation] for the ark, and finish it to at least a cubit (eighteen inches) from the top—and set the [entry] door of the ark in its side; and you shall make it with lower, second and third decks.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body,.... Since grace reigns in you, sin should not: seeing ye are dead to sin, are baptized into the death of Christ, and are dead with him, and alive through him, sin therefore should not reign in you, and over you. This exhortation does not suppose a freewill power in man naturally, for this is spoken to persons, who had the Spirit and grace of Christ, and in whom God had wrought both to will and to do of his good pleasure; nor is this exhortation unnecessary to believers, though they are dead to sin, and though God has promised it shall not have the dominion over them, and though reigning sin, as divines say, cannot be in regenerate persons; for though they are entirely dead to sin as justified persons, yet not perfectly so as sanctified: they are indeed dead to sin, but sin is not dead in them; it struggles, it makes war, leads captive, and threatens absolute and universal dominion, wherefore such an exhortation is necessary; besides, though God has promised that sin shall not have the dominion, yet making use of means, such as prayer to God that it may not, striving against it, opposing it, in order to hinder its dominion, are no ways inconsistent with the promise of God, whose promises often have their accomplishment in the use of means: moreover, whereas some divines say, that reigning sin may be and others that it cannot be in regenerate persons, it should be observed, that if by reigning sin is meant, sinning against God out of malice and contempt, with the whole heart, without any struggle against it, or repentance for it, or so as to lose the grace of God, and never rise more, then it must be said that it cannot be in a regenerate man; but if by it is meant, falling into sin against their consciences, knowingly and willingly, so as to distress their minds, lose their peace, and grieve the Spirit of God, so as to be held under it, and be led captive by it, such power sin may have in them, and over them; and therefore the exhortation is not needless; and when the apostle says, let it not reign "in your mortal body", by it is either meant the whole man, or rather the body only, which is the instrument of sinning, and is become mortal through sin; and being so, is a reason why it should not reign in it, since it has done so much mischief to it already: and this also denotes the time of sin's being in us, and of the danger of its reigning in us; it is only whilst we are in this mortal body; and the consideration of our mortality should quicken us to war against sin, and be careful not to

obey it in the lusts thereof; the lusts of the body, or flesh, which are therefore sometimes called fleshly lusts, are many, and have great power and influence; and may be said to be obeyed, when provision is made to fulfil them, when these are the business of a man's life, and the whole of his conversation is taken up in them, without struggle against them, or opposition to them; and heroin lies the reign of sin.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Let not sin therefore - This is a conclusion drawn from the previous train of reasoning. The result of all these considerations is, that sin should not be suffered to reign in us.

Reign - Have dominion; obtain the ascendency, or rule.

In your mortal body - In you. The apostle uses the word “mortal” here, perhaps, for these reasons,

1. To remind them of the tendency of the flesh to sin and corruption, as equivalent to “fleshly,” since the flesh is often used to denote evil passions and desires (compare Romans 7:5, Romans 7:23; Romans 8:3, Romans 8:6); and,
2. To remind them of their weakness, as the body was mortal, was soon to decay, and was therefore liable to be overcome by temptation. Perhaps, also, he had his eye on the folly of suffering the “mortal body” to overcome the immortal mind, and to bring it into subjection to sin and corruption.

That ye should obey it - That sin should get such an ascendency as to rule entirely over you, and make you the slave.

In the lusts thereof - In its desires, or propensities.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 6:12. Let not sin therefore reign — This is a prosopopoeia, or personification. Sin is represented as a king, ruler, or tyrant, who has the desires of the mind and the members of the body under his control so that by influencing the passions he governs the body. Do not let sin reign, do not let him work; that is, let him have no place, no being in your souls; because, wherever he is he governs, less or more: and indeed sin is not sin without this. How is sin known? By evil influences in the mind, and evil acts in the life. But do not these influences and these acts prove his dominion? Certainly, the very existence of an evil thought to which passion or appetite attaches itself, is a proof that there sin has dominion; for without dominion such passions could not be excited. Wherever sin is felt, there sin has dominion; for sin is sin only as it works in action or passion against God. Sin cannot be a quiescent thing: if it do not work it does not exist.

That ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. — Αυτῃ εν ταις επιθυμιαις αυτου. This clause is wanting in the most ancient and reputable MSS. and in the principal versions. Griesbach has left it out of his text; and Professor White says, Certissime delenda: "These words should certainly he expunged" they are not necessary to the apostle's argument; it was enough to say, Let not sin reign in your mortal bodies, that ye should obey it. If it be there it will reign there; and its reign supposes, necessarily, the subjection of that in which it reigns. A king reigns when his laws are enforced, and the people obey them. When there is no executive government there is no reign. There may be a royal shadow there, but there is no king.