Amen!!!No it isn’t.
It’s this:
“Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.” (Romans 6:12)
Romans 6:3-12 KJV
3) Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
4) Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5) For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6) Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7) For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8) Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9) Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
10) For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
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.
Great passage!!
Having been "co-crucified" with Christ, we've died, and being dead, are free from sin. And we also believe we shall also live with Him.
So we need to reckon ourselves in fact dead to sin, and alive unto God through our continuing to believe, continuing to obey, wait, that's not what it says! We are alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
So for this reason, do not let sin rule in your dying body, that you should obey sin's lusts.
Believe in our crucifiction with Jesus. Believe in our resurrection with Jesus. Believe in our freedom from sin. Believe this has settled the matter, that we SHALL live with Him!
Believe you are alive unto God not based on what you do or don't do, but based what Jesus did on the cross, and as He continues forever our intercessor.
Believe, and don't let sin rule! Sin's power is a lie, it's false!
When He appears, you shall appear with Him. When we see Him, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is. And he who has this hope purifies himself, even as He is pure.
Maybe because when we come to see the certainty of our salvation, that's when we really "get it" that the power of sin really is broken.
Much love!