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Romans 6:14

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

KJV

ἁμαρτία γὰρ ὑμῶν οὐ κυριεύσει, οὐ γάρ ἐστε ὑπὸ νόμον ἀλλὰ ὑπὸ χάριν.

Greek NT

Peccatum enim vobis non dominabitur : non enim sub lege estis, sed sub gratia.

Vulgate

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.

ASV

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
κυριεύω
kurieuo
verb · 7×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
χάρις
charis
noun · 155×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἁμαρτία
amartia
noun · 173×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
ὑπό
upo
preposition · 221×

Themes

Historic Christian voices

8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210211.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210212.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? God forbid. Calvin shows that Paul refutes the charge of antinomianism. Those who have been united with Christ in his death are dead to sin and alive to God. Baptism signifies this union with Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection. Sin shall not have dominion over the believer, for we are not under law but under grace. The …
Those people whom God according to his purpose calls into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord and regenerates by the Holy Spirit, he also sets free from the reign and slavery of sin, though in this life not entirely from the flesh and from the body of sin.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 9:20 — And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
  • 1Tim 1:9 — Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of moth
  • 2Cor 3:6 — 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.
  • Gal 2:19 — For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
  • Gal 3:23 — But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
  • Gal 3:23 — But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
  • Gal 3:25 — But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
  • Gal 4:4 — But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
  • Gal 4:21 — Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
  • Gal 4:21 — Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
  • Gal 4:26 — But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
  • Gal 5:1 — Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
  • Gal 5:18 — But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
  • Gal 5:18 — But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
  • Heb 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, an
  • Heb 12:18 — For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
  • John 1:17 — For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
  • John 1:17 — For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
  • John 8:32 — And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
  • John 8:36 — If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
  • Matt 1:21 — And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
  • Mic 7:19 — He 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.
  • Mic 7:19 — He 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.
  • Num 23:21 — He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
  • Ps 130:7 — Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
  • Ps 130:8 — And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
  • Rom 3:19 — 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.
  • Rom 4:16 — Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who
  • Rom 5:20 — Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
  • Rom 5:20 — Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
  • Rom 5:21 — That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
  • Rom 6:9 — Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
  • Rom 6:12 — Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
  • Rom 6:15 — What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
  • Rom 6:18 — Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
  • Rom 6:22 — But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
  • Rom 7:1 — Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
  • Rom 7:4 — 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 G
  • Rom 7:4 — 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 G
  • Rom 7:6 — 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.