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 submit to being someone's slaves, and obeying him, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, whether your slavery is to sin, and leads to death, or is to obedience, and leads to uprightness?

For when we were living mere physical lives the sinful passions, awakened by the Law, operated through the organs of our bodies to make us bear fruit for death.

Do you not know that your bodies are parts of Christ's body? Am I then to take away from Christ parts of his body, and make them parts of a prostitute's? Never!

So treat as dead your physical nature, as far as immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed are concerned; for it is really idolatry.

So the tongue is a little organ and yet very boastful. What a great forest a spark will set on fire!

What causes wars and fights among you? Is it not your cravings, which are at war within your bodies?

Instruments

for the weapons I use are not earthly ones, but divinely strong for destroying fortresses.

But yield

I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship.

you have been bought and paid for. Therefore, honor God with your bodies.

They did far more than I hoped, for first in obedience to God's will, they gave themselves to the Lord, and to me.

for I eagerly and confidently hope that I shall never disgrace myself but that this time as always hitherto, living or dying, I shall do Christ credit by my unfailing courage.

Alive

So you also must think of yourselves as dead to sin but alive to God, through union with Christ Jesus.

for my son here was dead, and he has come to life; he was lost, and he is found!' So they began to celebrate.

I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life.

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

he made us, dead as we were through our offenses, live again with the Christ. It is by his mercy that you have been saved.

So it says, "Wake up, sleeper! Rise from the dead, And Christ will dawn upon you!"

Yes, you who were dead through your misdeeds and physically uncircumcised, God raised to life with Christ. He forgave us all our misdeeds,

He carried the burden of our sins in his own body on the cross, in order that we might die to sin and live for uprightness. By his wounds you have been healed.

and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills.

And your

So the tongue is a little organ and yet very boastful. What a great forest a spark will set on fire!