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

Know you not, that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether of sin that leads to death, or of obedience that leads to righteousness?

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were excited by the law, were active in our members, so as to bring forth fruit to death:

Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I, then, take the members of the Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? It must not be.

Put to death, therefore, your members that are on the earth, lewdness, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

So, also, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest does a little fire set in a blaze.

Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members?

Instruments

(for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty, through God, for the overthrowing of strongholds,)

But yield

I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

For you have been bought with a price: therefore, glorify God in your body.

and they did this, not only as we had hoped, but they gave them selves first to the Lord, and then to us, through the will of God;

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but with all boldness, as at all times, so even now, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

Alive

So also do you count yourselves as dead indeed to sin, but as living to God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

for this my son was dead, and is alive again: he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

Verily, verily I say to you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has eternal life, and comes not into condemnation, but has passed from death into life.

and he died for all, that those who live should no more live for them selves, but for him who died for them, and rose again.

made alive with Christ even us, being dead to our offenses, (by grace you are saved,)

Wherefore, the scripture says: Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.

And you, being dead to your offenses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has made alive together with him, having forgiven you all your offenses;

He himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. By his stripes you were healed.

so that he no longer lives the rest of his time in the flesh, according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.

And your

So, also, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest does a little fire set in a blaze.