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

James 3:5

Bible References

Neither

Do you not know that when you habitually offer yourselves to anyone for obedience to him, you are slaves to that one whom you are in the habit of obeying, whether it is the slavery to sin whose end is death or to obedience whose end is right-doing?

For when we were living in accordance with our lower nature, the sinful passions that were aroused by the law were operating in the parts of our bodies to make us bear fruit that leads to death.

Do you not know that your bodies are parts of Christ Himself? Then may I take away parts of Christ and make them parts of a prostitute? Never! Never!

So once for all put to death your lower, earthly nature with respect to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is real idolatry.

So the tongue, too, is a little organ but can boast of great achievements. See how a spark, ever so tiny, can set a vast forest on fire!

What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder.

Instruments

for the weapons used in my warfare are not mere human ones, but through my God are mighty for demolishing fortresses.

But yield

I beg you, therefore, brothers, through these mercies God has shown you, to make a decisive dedication of your bodies as a living sacrifice, devoted and well-pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service.

for you have been bought and actually paid for. So you must honor God with your bodies.

They did not do as I expected but even more; they first by God's will gave themselves to the Lord, and then to me;

in accordance with my eager expectation and hope that I shall never disgrace myself, but that now as always hitherto, by my all-conquering courage, whether by living or dying, Christ will be honored in me.

Alive

So you too must consider yourselves as having ended your relation to sin but living in unbroken relation to God.

because this son of mine was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found!' So they began to celebrate.

"I most solemnly say to you, whoever listens to me and believes Him who has sent me possesses eternal life, and will never come under condemnation, but has already passed out of death into life.

and He died for all, that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

has made us, though dead because of our shortcomings, live again in fellowship with Christ -- it is by His unmerited favor that you have been saved.

So it is said: "Wake up, sleeper; get up from the dead, and Christ will make day dawn on you."

Yes, although you were dead through your shortcomings and were physically uncircumcised, God made you live again through fellowship with Christ. He graciously forgave us all our shortcomings,

He bore our sins in His own body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to uprightness. By His wounds you have been healed,

so that he no longer can spend the rest of his earthly life in harmony with human desires but in accordance with God's will.

And your

So the tongue, too, is a little organ but can boast of great achievements. See how a spark, ever so tiny, can set a vast forest on fire!