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

Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to him whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, which were by the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit to death;

Do ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make them members of a harlot? Far be the thought.

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.

Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles!

Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?

Instruments

For the arms of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful according to God to the overthrow of strongholds;

But yield

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

Now, harden not your necks, as your fathers; yield yourselves to Jehovah, and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever; and serve Jehovah your God, that the fierceness of his anger may turn away from you.

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and who changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God!

for ye have been bought with a price: glorify now then God in your body.

And not according as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by God's will.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but in all boldness, as always, now also Christ shall be magnified in my body whether by life or by death.

Alive

So also ye, reckon yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found. And they began to make merry.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, that he that hears my word, and believes him that has sent me, has life eternal, and does not come into judgment, but is passed out of death into life.

and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.

(we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,)

Wherefore he says, Wake up, thou that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.

And you, being dead in offences and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has quickened together with him, having forgiven us all the offences;

who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, in order that, being dead to sins, we may live to righteousness: by whose stripes ye have been healed.

no longer to live the rest of his time in the flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will.

And your

The mouth of the righteous proffereth wisdom, and his tongue speaketh judgment;

There is that babbleth like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.

Thus also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. See how little a fire, how large a wood it kindles!

General references

But if the scab have spread much in the skin, after that he hath been seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again;

And the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass-offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.

But the children of Manasseh could not dispossess the inhabitants of those cities; and the Canaanites would dwell in that land.