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 ye not know, that to whomsoever ye present yourselves servants to obey, ye are his servants to whom ye obey; if of sin unto death, or of obedience, unto righteousness?

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions excited by the law, wrought powerfully in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.

Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Taking then the members of Christ, shall I make them members of an harlot? God forbid.

Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, the vile passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is idolatry:

So also the tongue is a little member, and proudly vaunts. Behold how great a pile of wood, a little fire kindleth!

FROM whence come wars and conflicts among you? spring they not from hence, even from your passions, which war in your members?

Instruments

for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God for the casting down the strong holds [of corruption];

But yield

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

For ye have been bought with a price: glorify then God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

And not [merely] as we hoped, but gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us according to the will of God.

according to my firm expectation and hope, that I shall be confounded by no event, but that with all boldness, as always hitherto, Christ shall now also be magnified in my body, whether by my life or death.

Alive

So also do ye account yourselves dead indeed to sin, but living unto God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For this my son was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found. And they began to be joyous.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, That he that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment; but is passed from death into life.

and he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him that died for them, and rose again.

though we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved,)

Wherefore he saith, "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."

And you, who were dead in sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened with him, freely forgiving you all trespasses;

who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead unto sins, might live unto righteousness; "by whose stripes, [even] his, ye were healed."

that he might not spend the remaining space of life in the flesh after human passions, but the divine will.

And your

So also the tongue is a little member, and proudly vaunts. Behold how great a pile of wood, a little fire kindleth!