Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V

And for this reason he says, in the Epistle to the Romans: "Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body, to be under its control: neither yield ye your members instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield yourselves to God, as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God."[123]

The Second Epistle of Pope Callistus

Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of men."[25]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

And such an one indeed would see in Him the kingdom of God come with power; and he would see this, as one who is no longer now under the reign of "sin which reigns in the mortal body of those who sin,"[225]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIV

you may say that Christ is theirs in so far as He is absolute Kingdom, reigning in every thought ofthe man who is no longer under the reign of sin which reigns in the mortal body of those who havesubjected themselves to it.[44]

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