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.

Instruments

Bible References

Neither

Romans 6:16
Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, ye are servants to whom ye listen; either of sin to death, or of obedience to justice?
Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh the passions of sins, those by the law, were energetic in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
1 Corinthians 6:15
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? having taken the members of Christ, shall I make members of a harlot? It may not be.
Colossians 3:5
Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
James 3:5
So also the tongue is a small member, and vaunts itself. Behold, how great a wood a little fire inflames
James 4:1
Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members

Instruments

2 Corinthians 10:4
(For the weapons of our warfare not fleshly, but powerful to God to the taking down of fortified places;)

But yield

Romans 12:1
I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your reasonable service.
2 Chronicles 30:8
Now ye shall not harden your neck as your fathers; ye shall give the hand to Jehovah, and come ye into his holy place which he consecrated forever: and serve ye Jehovah your God, and he will turn back from you the burning of his anger.
Daniel 3:28
{ Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, Blessed be their God of Shadrach,,Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who sent his messenger and delivered for his servants that trusted upon him, and they changed the king's word, and gave their bodies that they will not serve and prostrate themselves to any god, except to their God.}
1 Corinthians 6:20
For ye were bought for a price: then glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are of God.
2 Corinthians 8:5
And not as we hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.
Philippians 1:20
According to my anxious expectation, and hope, that in nothing shall I be ashamed, but in all freedom of speech, as always, and now shall Christ be Magnified in my body, whether by life, whether by death.

Alive

Romans 6:11
So also ye reckon yourselves truly to be dead to sin, and living to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Luke 15:24
For this my son was dead, and has returned to life; and he was lost, and found. And they began to be gladdened.
John 5:24
Truly, truly, I say to you, That he hearing my word, and believing him having sent me, has eternal life, and comes not into judgment; but has passed from death to life.
2 Corinthians 5:15
And he died for all, that the living no more live to themselves, but o him having died for them, and having risen.
Ephesians 2:5
And we being dead in faults, he made alive together with Christ, (by grace are ye saved;)
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he says, Awake, who sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will enlighten thee.
Colossians 2:13
And you, being dead in faults and uncircumcision of the flesh, he made alive together with him, having propitiated to you all faults;
1 Peter 2:24
Who himself bear up our sins in his body upon the wood, that we, removed from sins, should live to justice: by whose bloody mark ye were healed.
1 Peter 4:2
That no more to the eager desires of men, but to the will of God, should he live the remaining time in the flesh.

And your

Psalm 37:30
The mouth of the just one shall speak wisdom, and his tongue shall speak judgment
Proverbs 12:18
There is he talking idly as the piercings of the sword: and the tongue of the wise is healing.
James 3:5
So also the tongue is a small member, and vaunts itself. Behold, how great a wood a little fire inflames

General references

Leviticus 13:7
And if spreading, the scab shall spread in the skin, after his being seen to the priest for his cleansing, and he was seen the second time to the priest
Leviticus 14:14
And the priest took from the blood of the trespass, and the priest gave upon the extremity of the right ear of him being cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot
Joshua 17:12
And the sons of Manasseh will not be able to dispossess these cities; and the Canaanite will dwell in that land.