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 you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
1 Corinthians 6:15
Know you 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? God forbid.
Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
James 3:5
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles!
James 4:1
From where come wars and fightings among you? come they not from here, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Instruments

2 Corinthians 10:4
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;)

But yield

Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 Chronicles 30:8
Now be you not stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
Daniel 3:28
Then Nebuchadnezzar spoke, and said, Blessed be the God 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.
1 Corinthians 6:20
For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
2 Corinthians 8:5
And this they did, not as we expected, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
Philippians 1:20
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

Romans 6:11
Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Luke 15:24
For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
John 5:24
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hears my word, and believes on him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
2 Corinthians 5:15
And that he died for all, that they who live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them, and rose again.
Ephesians 2:5
Even when we were dead in sins, has made us alive together with Christ, (by grace you are saved;)
Ephesians 5:14
Therefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.
Colossians 2:13
And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, has he made alive together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
1 Peter 2:24
Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.
1 Peter 4:2
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

And your

Psalm 37:30
The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of justice.
Proverbs 12:18
There is one that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise brings health.
James 3:5
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a forest a little fire kindles!

General references

Leviticus 13:7
But if the scab spreads much abroad in the skin, after that he has been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again:
Leviticus 14:14
And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
Joshua 17:12
Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would persist to dwell in that land.