Romans 6:12-13

Dead to Sin, Alive to God

12 Let not g sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 h Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but i present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.

  1. Cross References
    Romans 6:14
    For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.
    Psalms 19:13
    Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then I shall be blameless, and innocent of great transgression.
    Psalms 119:133
    Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.
    Micah 7:19
    He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
    2 Corinthians 5:17
    Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
  2. Cross References
    Romans 7:5
    For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.
    Colossians 3:5
    Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
  3. Cross References
    Romans 12:1
    I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
    1 Peter 2:24
    He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
    1 Peter 4:2
    So as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.
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