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

Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

For 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 what is earthly in you:sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?

Instruments

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

But yield

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

Do not now be stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve the LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, "Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants, who trusted in him, and set aside the king's command, and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god except their own God.

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

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

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

Alive

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and 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 celebrate.

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

and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

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

for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

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

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

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

And your

The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!

General references

But if the eruption spreads in the skin, after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall appear again before the priest.

The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.