Read the Bible
KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE

Romans 6:12–16

TEXT EDITION
Pure Cambridge Edition selected
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Share
Email linkOpen a new message in your email app
Read chapterReport issue
More

PASSAGE SELECTION

Build from either side

5 selected · 18 available

Add or remove verses within this chapter. The study tools update with the selected passage.

SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE

Cross References

All 106 ranked passages are available for comparison.

From verse 12

  1. Galatians 5:16Rank 1 from verse 12
    Open

    16This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

  2. Romans 6:16Rank 2 from verse 12
    Open

    16Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

  3. Galatians 5:24Rank 3 from verse 12
    Open

    24And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

  4. Romans 8:13Rank 4 from verse 12
    Open

    13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

  5. 1 John 2:15–17Rank 5 from verse 12
    Open

    15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

    16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

    17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

  6. 2 Timothy 2:22Rank 6 from verse 12
    Open

    22Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

  7. Psalms 19:13Rank 7 from verse 12
    Open

    13Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

  8. 1 Peter 2:11Rank 8 from verse 12
    Open

    11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

  9. 2 Corinthians 4:11Rank 9 from verse 12
    Open

    11For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

  10. 1 Peter 4:2–3Rank 10 from verse 12
    Open

    2That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

    3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

  11. Ephesians 2:3Rank 11 from verse 12
    Open

    3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

  12. Ephesians 4:22Rank 12 from verse 12
    Open

    22That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

  13. Romans 13:14Rank 13 from verse 12
    Open

    14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

  14. Romans 2:8Rank 14 from verse 12
    Open

    8But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

  15. Titus 2:12Rank 15 from verse 12
    Open

    12Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

  16. 1 Corinthians 15:53–54Rank 16 from verse 12
    Open

    53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

    54So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

  17. 1 Peter 1:14Rank 17 from verse 12
    Open

    14As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

  18. 1 Thessalonians 4:5Rank 18 from verse 12
    Open

    5Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

  19. James 1:14–15Rank 19 from verse 12
    Open

    14But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

    15Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

  20. Jude 1:18Rank 20 from verse 12
    Open

    18How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

  21. Numbers 33:55Rank 21 from verse 12
    Open

    55But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

  22. Psalms 119:133Rank 22 from verse 12
    Open

    133Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

  23. Deuteronomy 7:2Rank 23 from verse 12
    Open

    2And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

  24. James 4:1–3Rank 24 from verse 12
    Open

    1FROM whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

    2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

    3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

  25. Joshua 23:12–13Rank 25 from verse 12
    Open

    12Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

    13Know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.

  26. Judges 2:3Rank 26 from verse 12
    Open

    3Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

  27. Romans 5:21Rank 27 from verse 12
    Open

    21That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

  28. Romans 6:14Rank 28 from verse 12
    Open

    14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

  29. Romans 7:23–24Rank 29 from verse 12
    Open

    23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

    24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

  30. Romans 8:11Rank 30 from verse 12
    Open

    11But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

  31. Titus 3:3Rank 31 from verse 12
    Open

    3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

  32. Jude 1:16Rank 32 from verse 12
    Open

    16These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.

  33. 2 Corinthians 5:4Rank 33 from verse 12
    Open

    4For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

From verse 13

  1. Romans 12:1Rank 1 from verse 13
    Open

    1I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

  2. Romans 6:16Rank 2 from verse 13
    Open

    16Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

  3. Colossians 3:5Rank 3 from verse 13
    Open

    5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

  4. 1 Peter 2:24Rank 4 from verse 13
    Open

    24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

  5. 1 Corinthians 6:20Rank 5 from verse 13
    Open

    20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

  6. 1 Peter 4:2Rank 6 from verse 13
    Open

    2That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

  7. Colossians 2:13Rank 7 from verse 13
    Open

    13And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

  8. Romans 7:5Rank 8 from verse 13
    Open

    5For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

  9. 1 John 1:9Rank 9 from verse 13
    Open

    9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

  10. 1 Corinthians 6:15Rank 10 from verse 13
    Open

    15Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

  11. James 3:5–6Rank 11 from verse 13
    Open

    5Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

    6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

  12. 1 Corinthians 6:9Rank 12 from verse 13
    Open

    9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

  13. 2 Corinthians 10:4Rank 13 from verse 13
    Open

    4(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

  14. Ephesians 2:5Rank 14 from verse 13
    Open

    5Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

  15. 2 Chronicles 30:8Rank 15 from verse 13
    Open

    8Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the Lord, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the Lord your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

  16. Philippians 1:20Rank 16 from verse 13
    Open

    20According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.

  17. Romans 6:19Rank 17 from verse 13
    Open

    19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

  18. 2 Corinthians 5:15Rank 18 from verse 13
    Open

    15And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

  19. Deuteronomy 25:16Rank 19 from verse 13
    Open

    16For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.

  20. Isaiah 55:7Rank 20 from verse 13
    Open

    7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

  21. Luke 15:32Rank 21 from verse 13
    Open

    32It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

  22. Romans 6:11Rank 22 from verse 13
    Open

    11Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  23. Romans 7:23Rank 23 from verse 13
    Open

    23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

  24. 2 Corinthians 8:5Rank 24 from verse 13
    Open

    5And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.

  25. 2 Peter 2:13–15Rank 25 from verse 13
    Open

    13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

    14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

    15Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

  26. Ephesians 5:14Rank 26 from verse 13
    Open

    14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

  27. Ezekiel 18:4Rank 27 from verse 13
    Open

    4Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

  28. John 5:24Rank 28 from verse 13
    Open

    24Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

  29. Luke 15:24Rank 29 from verse 13
    Open

    24For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

  30. Proverbs 12:18Rank 30 from verse 13
    Open

    18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

  31. Romans 2:8–9Rank 31 from verse 13
    Open

    8But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

    9Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;

  32. 2 Thessalonians 2:12Rank 32 from verse 13
    Open

    12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

  33. Daniel 3:28Rank 33 from verse 13
    Open

    28Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

  34. Isaiah 3:10–11Rank 34 from verse 13
    Open

    10Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

    11Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

  35. James 4:1Rank 35 from verse 13
    Open

    1FROM whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

  36. Psalms 37:30Rank 36 from verse 13
    Open

    30The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

  37. Romans 1:29Rank 37 from verse 13
    Open

    29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

From verse 14

  1. Galatians 5:18Rank 1 from verse 14
    Open

    18But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

  2. Romans 8:2Rank 2 from verse 14
    Open

    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

  3. Romans 7:4–11Rank 3 from verse 14
    Open

    4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

    5For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

    6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

    7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

    8But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

    9For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

    10And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

    11For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

  4. Hebrews 8:10Rank 4 from verse 14
    Open

    10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

  5. Galatians 4:4–5Rank 5 from verse 14
    Open

    4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

    5To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

  6. Romans 6:12Rank 6 from verse 14
    Open

    12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

  7. Romans 3:19–20Rank 7 from verse 14
    Open

    19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

    20Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

  8. John 8:36Rank 8 from verse 14
    Open

    36If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

  9. Psalms 130:7–8Rank 9 from verse 14
    Open

    7Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

    8And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

  10. 2 Corinthians 3:6–9Rank 10 from verse 14
    Open

    6Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

    7But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

    8How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?

    9For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

  11. Galatians 3:23Rank 11 from verse 14
    Open

    23But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

  12. John 1:17Rank 12 from verse 14
    Open

    17For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

  13. Galatians 4:21Rank 13 from verse 14
    Open

    21Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

  14. Romans 11:6Rank 14 from verse 14
    Open

    6And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

  15. Romans 5:20–21Rank 15 from verse 14
    Open

    20Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

    21That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

  16. Titus 2:14Rank 16 from verse 14
    Open

    14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

  17. Matthew 1:21Rank 17 from verse 14
    Open

    21And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

  18. Micah 7:19Rank 18 from verse 14
    Open

    19He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

  19. Romans 8:12Rank 19 from verse 14
    Open

    12Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

  20. Romans 4:16Rank 20 from verse 14
    Open

    16Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

  21. Romans 6:15Rank 21 from verse 14
    Open

    15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

From verse 15

  1. Titus 2:11–14Rank 1 from verse 15
    Open

    11For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

    12Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

    13Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

    14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

  2. Ephesians 2:8–10Rank 2 from verse 15
    Open

    8For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

    9Not of works, lest any man should boast.

    10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

  3. Romans 6:1–2Rank 3 from verse 15
    Open

    1WHAT shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

    2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

  4. 2 Corinthians 7:1Rank 4 from verse 15
    Open

    1HAVING therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

  5. Jude 1:4Rank 5 from verse 15
    Open

    4For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

  6. 1 Corinthians 9:20–21Rank 6 from verse 15
    Open

    20And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

    21To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

  7. Galatians 2:17–18Rank 7 from verse 15
    Open

    17But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

    18For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

  8. Romans 3:9Rank 8 from verse 15
    Open

    9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

From verse 16

  1. John 8:34Rank 1 from verse 16
    Open

    34Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

  2. Matthew 6:24Rank 2 from verse 16
    Open

    24¶ No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

  3. 2 Peter 2:19Rank 3 from verse 16
    Open

    19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

  4. Joshua 24:15Rank 4 from verse 16
    Open

    15And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

  5. Romans 6:12–13Rank 5 from verse 16
    Open

    12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

    13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

  6. Romans 6:19–23Rank 6 from verse 16
    Open

    19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

    20For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

    21What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

    22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

    23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

  7. Romans 6:17Rank 7 from verse 16
    Open

    17But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

Definitions

Open a word for its full definition and concordance.

DEFINED WORDS

Romans 6:12

COMBINED MEANING

let

↗

Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sin

↗

1. Wrongdoing against God and his law; transgression or unrighteousness. 2. The guilt or burden of such wrongdoing, or the inward principle so named. 3. As a verb, to commit such wrongdoing.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

reign

↗

Sense 1: To exercise kingly rule, dominion, governing power, or controlling power. Sense 2: Royal rule or dominion, or the period during which a ruler governs.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

↗

1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

your

↗

The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

body

↗

Sense 1: The material frame of a person or creature. Sense 2: A visible form, mass, or main substance. Sense 3: A unified whole or company composed of members. Sense 4: Substantial reality distinguished from a shadow.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

ye

↗

The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

should

↗

A verb expressing duty, propriety, expectation, intention, purpose, condition, appointed outcome, or a future event viewed from another time or statement.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

obey

↗

To hear with submission and do what is commanded; to comply with authority or instruction.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Romans 6:13

COMBINED MEANING

neither

↗

1. Also not; nor, introducing or joining a further negative statement or prohibition. 2. Not either, or none, of the alternatives named, commonly in a neither ... nor construction.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

yield

↗

1. To produce or give forth. 2. To give or grant. 3. To surrender or submit.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ye

↗

The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

your

↗

The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

members

↗

Sense 1: The limbs, organs, faculties, or other constituent parts of a body. Sense 2: Figuratively, persons joined as distinct parts of one body.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

instruments

↗

Sense 1: Tools or implements by which work is done or effects are produced. Sense 2: Devices made to produce music.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

unrighteousness

↗

Injustice, wickedness, or violation of divine law and the principles of justice and equity.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

sin

↗

1. Wrongdoing against God and his law; transgression or unrighteousness. 2. The guilt or burden of such wrongdoing, or the inward principle so named. 3. As a verb, to commit such wrongdoing.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

but

↗

Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

alive

↗

Sense 1: Living; having life; not dead. Sense 2: Continuing or active in life, force, or operation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

dead

↗

Sense 1: Without life; deprived of life. Sense 2: Lifeless, inactive, insensible, or separated from a former state by figure.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Romans 6:14

COMBINED MEANING

for

↗

1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sin

↗

1. Wrongdoing against God and his law; transgression or unrighteousness. 2. The guilt or burden of such wrongdoing, or the inward principle so named. 3. As a verb, to commit such wrongdoing.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

shall

↗

An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

dominion

↗

Sense 1: Rule, authority, mastery, power, or controlling sway over persons, creatures, conduct, or conditions. Sense 2: The realm or territory under such rule.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

you

↗

The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

ye

↗

The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

law

↗

Sense 1: An authoritative rule, command, ordinance, instruction, standard, or body of requirements. Sense 2: The writings containing such instruction. Sense 3: A governing principle, power, regular order, or civil rule. Sense 4: In family compounds, relationship by marriage.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

but

↗

Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

grace

↗

Sense 1: Favor, acceptance, goodwill, kindness, or mercy. Sense 2: A favor, gift, benefit, or help freely bestowed, especially God's favor and enabling help; in salvation, explicitly contrasted with works and debt. Sense 3: Pleasing quality, beauty, attractiveness, or elegance, including gracious speech. Sense 4: Thankfulness or gratitude.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Romans 6:15

COMBINED MEANING

shall

↗

An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

sin

↗

1. Wrongdoing against God and his law; transgression or unrighteousness. 2. The guilt or burden of such wrongdoing, or the inward principle so named. 3. As a verb, to commit such wrongdoing.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

law

↗

Sense 1: An authoritative rule, command, ordinance, instruction, standard, or body of requirements. Sense 2: The writings containing such instruction. Sense 3: A governing principle, power, regular order, or civil rule. Sense 4: In family compounds, relationship by marriage.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

but

↗

Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

grace

↗

Sense 1: Favor, acceptance, goodwill, kindness, or mercy. Sense 2: A favor, gift, benefit, or help freely bestowed, especially God's favor and enabling help; in salvation, explicitly contrasted with works and debt. Sense 3: Pleasing quality, beauty, attractiveness, or elegance, including gracious speech. Sense 4: Thankfulness or gratitude.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

God forbid

↗

An emphatic expression of rejection, abhorrence, or denial: let it not be; certainly not.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Romans 6:16

COMBINED MEANING

know

↗

To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ye

↗

The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

whom

↗

The objective form of who, referring to the person or persons acted upon or related to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

yield

↗

1. To produce or give forth. 2. To give or grant. 3. To surrender or submit.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

obey

↗

To hear with submission and do what is commanded; to comply with authority or instruction.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

sin

↗

1. Wrongdoing against God and his law; transgression or unrighteousness. 2. The guilt or burden of such wrongdoing, or the inward principle so named. 3. As a verb, to commit such wrongdoing.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

FOLLOW THE THEME

Related Concepts

Choose a connected KJV word or phrase to find where it appears in scripture.

READ THE PASSAGE

View in context

Suggested context · Romans 6:1–23

The selected passage is highlighted. Context is a study aid.

Read all 23 verses in Romans 6:1–23

6:1WHAT shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

6:2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

6:3Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

6:4Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

6:5For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

6:6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

6:7For he that is dead is freed from sin.

6:8Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

6:9Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

6:10For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

6:11Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

6:12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Selected passage

6:13Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Selected passage

6:14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Selected passage

6:15What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

Selected passage

6:16Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Selected passage

6:17But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

6:18Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

6:19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

6:20For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

6:21What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

6:22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

6:23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

LOCAL PASTOR DIRECTORY

Ask a Pastor Near You

Enter a U.S. ZIP code to find nearby pastors committed to holding fast the faithful word.

Your ZIP is processed in this browser from local data. It is not sent to a ZIP lookup service or to a church. ZIP coordinates from GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.