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

Or know ye not that to whom ye present yourselves slaves to obey, his slaves ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death or of the obedience unto righteousness?

For while we were in the flesh, the affections of the sins which were by the law worked in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot? In no wise.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil lust, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

In the same manner, the tongue is a very small member and boasts of great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles!

Where do the wars and disputes come from among you? From here that is to say, of your lusts which fight in your members?

Instruments

(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God for the destruction of strong holds),

But yield

Therefore, I beseech you brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies in living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing unto God, which is your rational worship.

Therefore, do not be stiffnecked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

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

For ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord and then unto us by the will of God.

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

Alive

Likewise also reckon yourselves to be truly dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ, Jesus, our Lord.

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

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hears my word and believes him that sent me has eternal life and shall not come into judgment but has passed from death unto life.

And that he died for all that those who live should not live from now on unto themselves, but unto him who died and rose again for them.

even as we were dead in sins, he has made us alive together with the Christ (by whose grace ye are saved)

Therefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.

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

he himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness; by whose wound ye were healed.

so that now the time that remains in the flesh, he might live, not unto the lusts of men, but unto the will of God.

And your

Pe The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue brings forth judgment.

There are those that speak like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is medicine.

In the same manner, the tongue is a very small member and boasts of great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles!

General references

But if the scab spreads much abroad in the skin after he has been shown unto the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again;

And the priest shall take some of the blood of the expiation for the guilt, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of the one that is to be purified and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot.

But the sons of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; to the contrary the Canaanite desired to dwell in that land.