Romans 6:13

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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

by no means. know ye not, that to whom ye subject your selves vassals at command, his vassals you are whom you thus obey; the vassals either of sin to destruction, or of obedience to justification?

for when we were in the carnal state of the law, the sinful passions of that state set our animal faculties to work in the service of death.

Don't you know, that your bodies are parts of Christ's mystical body? now, how can that which is Christ's, be made the property of a very creature?

Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.

so the tongue is but a small part of the body, yet how grand are its pretensions. a spark of fire! what quantities of timber will it blow into a flame?

you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain.

Instruments

our military arms are not so defective, but divinely effectual to demolish all their ramparts;

But yield

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God to you, that you present your bodies a living victim, holy, acceptable unto God, as the service of a rational being.

for you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

and in this they out-did my expectation; such was the divine pleasure, they first gave themselves to the Lord, and then made me an offer to go themselves to Corinth.

agreeably to that expectation and persuasion I have, that I shall not labour in vain; but as I always have, so I shall still glorify Christ in my body, whether it be by life or by death: for if I live, I live to Christ;

Alive

in like manner consider your selves as dead to sin; but alive to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

for this son of mine was dead, and is come to life: he was lost, and is found again. and then they began their feast.

I declare unto you, he that heareth my doctrine, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come under condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

that they who are in a state of life should not live at their own discretion, but to the service of him who died for them, and rose again.

did raise us all, who were in that deadly state of sin, to life by Christ, for by grace ye are saved:

wherefore 'tis said, " awake thou that sleepest, arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."

Even you, who were in a dying sinful state, and were uncircumcised Gentiles, has God raised to life, as he did Christ, having pardoned all your sins:

he himself cancel'd our sins by the crucifixion of his body, that we being set free from sin, might live in the service of virtue. it is by his bruises that you were healed:

so that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts.

And your

so the tongue is but a small part of the body, yet how grand are its pretensions. a spark of fire! what quantities of timber will it blow into a flame?