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.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 6:12 An exhortation to contend and strive with corruption and all the effects thereof.
  2. 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.
  3. Romans 6:13 To sin, as to a Lord or tyrant.
  4. Romans 6:13 Your mind and all the powers of it.
  5. Romans 6:13 As instruments to commit wickedness withall.
  6. 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.

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