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 if you yield yourselves to any one to obey as slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, whether of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry.

So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!

What causes quarrels and fights among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members?

Instruments

For the weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world, but they have divine power to destroy strongholds.

But yield

I appeal to you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

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

And they did not do as we expected, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God.

as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be ashamed in anything, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

Alive

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

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

Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me, has eternal life; and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

For this reason it is said, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

When you were dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our sins,

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.

so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human lusts, but for the will of God.

And your

So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!