Romans 6:12

Formerly Dead To Sin, Now Alive In Christ

¹¹ Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus. ¹² 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; ¹³ And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.

For This Cause

Mortal Bodies

Mortal Body

Be Subject To

Sin

Psalm 19:13

Keep your servant back from sins of pride; let them not have rule over me: then will I be upright and free from great sin.

Psalm 119:133

Let my steps be guided by your word; and let not sin have control over me.

Romans 6:16

Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.

Romans 2:8

But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

Numbers 33:55

But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.

Deuteronomy 7:2

And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:

Joshua 23:12-13

For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:

Judges 2:3

And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you.

Romans 5:21

That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:14

For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

Romans 7:23-24

But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.

Romans 8:11

But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.

Romans 8:13

For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

Romans 13:14

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.

1 Corinthians 15:53-54

For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life.

2 Corinthians 4:11

For, while living, we are still being given up to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our flesh, though it is under the power of death.

2 Corinthians 5:4

For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.

Galatians 5:16

But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.

Galatians 5:24

And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

Ephesians 2:3

Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.

Ephesians 4:22

That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

1 Thessalonians 4:5

Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

2 Timothy 2:22

But keep yourself from those desires of the flesh which are strong when the body is young, and go after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those whose prayers go up to the Lord from a clean heart.

Titus 2:12

Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;

Titus 3:3

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

James 1:14-15

But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.

James 4:1-3

What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?

1 Peter 1:14

Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

1 Peter 2:11

My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;

1 Peter 4:2-3

So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.

1 John 2:15-17

Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Jude 1:16

These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.

Jude 1:18

How they said to you, In the last days there will be men who, guided by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things.