Romans 6:14
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Romans 6:14 in other translations
| BSB | For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. |
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| WEB | For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace. |
| ASV | For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace. |
| YLT | for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace. |
| DARBY | For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under law but under grace. |
| BBE | For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace. |
| Webster | For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. |
What does Romans 6:14 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Barnes' Notes
Shall not have dominion. Shall not reign, Rom 5:14, 6:6. This implies that sin ought not to have this dominion; and it also expresses the conviction of the apostle that it would not have this rule over Christians.
For we are not under the law. We who are Christians are not subject to that law where sin is excited, and where it rages unsubdued. But it may be asked here, what is meant by this declaration? Does it mean that Christians are absolved from all the obligations of the law? I answer,
(1.) The apostle does not affirm that Christians are not bound to obey the moral law. The whole scope of his reasoning shows that he maintains that they are. The whole structure of Christianity supposes the same thing. Comp. Mt 5:17-19.
(2.) The apostle means to say that Christians are not under the law as legalists, or as attempting to be justified by it. They seek a different plan of justification altogether; and they do not attempt to be justified by their own obedience. The Jews did; they do not.
(3.) It is implied here, that the effect of an attempt to be justified by the law was not to subdue sins, but to excite them, and to lead to indulgence in them. Justification by works would destroy no sin, would check no evil propensity, but would leave a man to all the ravages and riotings of unsubdued passion. If, therefore, the apostle had maintained that men were justified by works, he could not have consistently exhorted them to abandon their sins. He would have had no powerful motives by which to urge it; for the scheme would not lead to it. But he here says that the Christian was seeking justification on a plan which contemplated and which accomplished the destruction of sin; and he therefore infers that sin should not have dominion over them.
But under grace. Under a scheme of mercy, the design and tendency of which is to subdue sin, and destroy it. In what way the system of grace removes and destroys sin, the apostle states in the following verses.
(x) "have dominion over you" Mic 7:19
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Romans 6:11-15
The strongest motives against sin, and to enforce holiness, are here stated. Being made free from the reign of sin, alive unto God, and having the prospect of eternal life, it becomes believers to be greatly concerned to advance thereto. But, as unholy lusts are not quite rooted out in this life, it must be the care of the Christian to resist their motions, earnestly striving, that, through Divine grace, they may…
Romans 6:14 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Romans 6:14
- Galatians 5:18
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
- Romans 8:2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
- Romans 7:4-11
Wherefore, 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. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. …
- Hebrews 8:10
For 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 4:4-5
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
- Romans 6:12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
- Psalms 130:7-8
Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
- Romans 3:19-20
Now 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. Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
- John 8:36
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
- 2 Corinthians 3:6-9
Who 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. But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
- John 1:17
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
- Galatians 3:23
But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
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- Romans 6:13
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.
- Romans 6:14
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
- Romans 6:15
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Romans 6:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque el pecado no se enseñoreará de vosotros; pues no estáis bajo la ley, sino bajo la gracia. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car le péché ne dominera pas sur vous, parce que vous n’êtes pas sous la loi, mais sous la grâce. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn die Sünde wird nicht über euch herrschen, denn ihr seid nicht unter Gesetz, sondern unter Gnade. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Peccatum enim vobis non dominabitur: non enim sub lege estis, sed sub gratia. |