Romans 6:12-17
1599 Geneva Bible
12 [a]Let not sin [b]reign therefore in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof:
13 Neither [c]give ye your [d]members, as [e]weapons of unrighteousness unto sin: but give yourselves unto God, as they that are alive from the dead, and give your members as weapons of righteousness unto God.
14 [f]For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the Law, but under grace.
15 [g]What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the Law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 (A)Know ye not, that to whomsoever ye give yourselves as servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey, whether it be of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 [h]But God be thanked, that ye have been the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart unto the [i]form of the doctrine, whereunto ye were delivered.
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- Romans 6:12 An exhortation to contend and strive with corruption and all the effects thereof.
- Romans 6:12 By reigning, Saint Paul meaneth that chiefest and high rule, which no man striveth against, and if any do, yet it is in vain.
- Romans 6:13 To sin, as to a Lord or tyrant.
- Romans 6:13 Your mind and all the powers of it.
- Romans 6:13 As instruments to commit wickedness withall.
- Romans 6:14 He granteth that sin is not yet so dead in us that it is utterly extinct: but he promised victory to them that contend manfully, because we have the grace of God given us which worketh so, that the Law is not now in us the power and instrument of sin.
- Romans 6:15 To be under the law and under sin, signifiy all one, in respect of them which are not sanctified, as on the contrary side, to be under grace and righteousness, agree to them that are regenerate. Now these are contraries, so that one cannot agree with the other: Therefore let righteousness expel sin.
- Romans 6:17 By nature we are slaves to sin, and free from righteousness, but by the grace of God we are made servants to righteousness, and therefore free from sin.
- Romans 6:17 This kind of speech hath a force in it: for he meaneth thereby that the doctrine of the Gospel is like a certain mold which we are cast into to be framed and fashioned like unto it.
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