KJV King James Version
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Romans 6:14
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
WEB World English Bible
For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
ASV American Standard Version
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.
Surrounding context — Romans 6
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
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Galatians 5:18But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.Romans 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.Romans 7:4-11Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.Hebrews 8:10For this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:Galatians 4:4-5But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,Romans 6:12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.Romans 3:19-20Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.John 8:36If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.Galatians 3:23But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.John 1:17For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.Psalm 130:7-8Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD [there is] mercy, and with him [is] plenteous redemption.2 Corinthians 3:6-9Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.Romans 5:20-21Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:Galatians 4:21Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.Romans 11:6And if by grace, then [is it] no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if [it be] of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.Romans 8:12Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.Micah 7:19He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
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