the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Romans 6:12
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Don't let sin have the reins of your life. Don't give in to those sinful desires you'll regret later.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
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;
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body to obey its lusts.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires.
Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in the desires thereof.
Let not Sin therefore reign as king in your mortal bodies, causing you to be in subjection to their cravings;
Let not sinne reigne therfore in your mortall body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Then do not let sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its lusts.
Let not synne reigne therfore in youre mortall bodye, that ye shulde obeye vnto the lustes of it.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, by making you slaves to the lusts thereof.
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.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts and passions.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.
Let not synne raygne therfore in youre mortall bodyes that ye shuld thervnto obey in the lustes of it.
Don't let sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey the desires thereof:
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts of it.
Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;
So, do not let sin control your life here on earth so that you do what your sinful self wants to do.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,
Therefore do not let sin control your mortal body so that you obey its desires.
Don't let sin rule your body. After all, your body is bound to die, so don't obey its desires
Therefore, do not let sin rule in your mortal bodies, so that it makes you obey its desires;
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions.
Let not sinne reigne therefore in your mortal body, yt ye should obey it in ye lusts therof:
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Therefore don't let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
Therefore, do not let sin rule your mortal bodies so that you obey their desires.Psalm 19:13; 119:133;">[xr]
Let not sin then reign in your dead body, as that you may obey the lusts of it:
Therefore let not sin reign in your dead body, so that ye obey its lusts.
Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to sinful desires.
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.
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:
Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.
Let not sin, therefore, reign in your death-doomed body, that ye should be obedient to its covetings;
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires,
Let not sinne raigne therefore in your mortall bodie, that ye shoulde thervnto obey by the lustes of it.
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.
Therefore sin is not to reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts,
Sin must no longer rule in your mortal bodies, so that you obey the desires of your natural self.
Therfor regne not synne in youre deedli bodi, that ye obeische to hise coueityngis.
Contextual Overview
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
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord .
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
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,
- 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,
- 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.
