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Romans 6:12

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12Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

KJV

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

BSB

12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

FBV

12Don't let sin have control over your mortal body, don't give in to its temptations,

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Extra References

Galatians 5:16

16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.


Romans 6:16

16Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey, whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?


Romans 8:13

13For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.


Galatians 5:24

24Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.


2 Timothy 2:22

22Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.


1 John 2:15-17

15Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. 16For all that is in the worldthe lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s. 17The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God’s will remains forever.


Psalms 19:13

13Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.


Ephesians 4:22

22that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,


1 Peter 2:11

11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,


2 Corinthians 4:11

11For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesussake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.