Romans 6:13

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Romans 6:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Neither

Instruments

2 Corinthians 10:4

But yield

Alive

And your

Psalm 37:30

Proverbs 12:18

James 3:5

General references

Leviticus 13:7

Leviticus 14:14

Joshua 17:12

Bible References

Neither

Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey—either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?

For when we were in the flesh,

the sinful passions operated through the law in every part of us

and bore fruit for death.

Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body? So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not!

Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things. Consider how large a forest a small fire ignites.

What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you?

Instruments

since the weapons of our warfare are not worldly, but are powerful through God for the demolition of strongholds. We demolish arguments

But yield

Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship.

Don’t become obstinate

now like your fathers did. Give your allegiance to Yahweh, and come to His sanctuary that He has consecrated forever. Serve the Lord your God so that He may turn His burning anger away from you,

Nebuchadnezzar exclaimed, “Praise to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! He sent His angel

and rescued His servants who trusted in Him. They violated the king’s command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.

for you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

and not just as we had hoped. Instead, they gave themselves especially to the Lord, then to us by God’s will.

My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all boldness, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether by life or by death.

Alive

So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

because this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

“I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

And He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.

made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!

for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said:

Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead,
and the Messiah will shine on you.

And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive with Him and forgave us all our trespasses.

He Himself bore our sins
in His body on the tree,
so that, having died to sins,
we might live for righteousness;
you have been healed by His wounds.

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

And your

The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom;
his tongue speaks what is just.

There is one who speaks rashly,
like a piercing sword;
but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things. Consider how large a forest a small fire ignites.

General references

But if the scab spreads further on his skin after he has presented himself to the priest for his cleansing, he must present himself again to the priest.

The priest is to take some of the blood from the restitution offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

The descendants of Manasseh could not possess these cities, because the Canaanites were determined to stay in this land.