Romans 6:12

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof.

The Christian has a king; that king is Christ who reigns in his heart (see quotation from Wuest under Romans 6:4); and, in view of all that means, who could desire to dethrone him and put the monster of sin back in control of life's inner citadel; for, make no mistake, sin indulged makes sin the king instead of Christ; and the experience of every mortal should be enough to convince the most obdurate that sin is a heartless and cruel sovereign who will bind his hapless slaves to their sordid sins and pay them all with rotten death!