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

Romans 12:1

1 Corinthians 6:20

2 Corinthians 8:5

Alive

And your

James 3:5

Bible References

Neither

Do you not know you are the servants of the master you obey, of the master to whom you yield yourselves obedient, whether it is Sin, whose service ends in death, or Obedience, whose service ends in righteousness?

For when we were unspiritual, the sinful cravings excited by the Law were active in our members and made us fruitful to Death;

Do you not know your bodies are members of Christ? Am I to take Christ's members and devote them to a harlot? Never!

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

So the tongue is a small member of the body, but it can boast of great exploits. What a forest is set ablaze by a little spark of fire!

Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members?

Instruments

the weapons of my warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but divinely strong to demolish fortresses ??5 I demolish theories and any rampart thrown up to resist the knowledge of God, I take every project prisoner to make it obey Christ,

But yield

Well then, my brothers, I appeal to you by all the mercy of God to dedicate your bodies as a living sacrifice, consecrated and acceptable to God; that is your cult, a spiritual rite.

you were bought for a price; then glorify God with your body.

They have done more than I expected; they gave themselves to the Lord, to begin with, and then (for so God willed it) they put themselves at my disposal.

Alive

So you must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

for my son here was dead and he has come to life, he was lost and he is found.' So they began to make merry.

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

and that he died for all in order to have the living live no longer for themselves but for him who died and rose for them.

he made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved);

Thus it is said, 'Wake up, O sleeper, and rise from the dead; so Christ will shine upon you.'

For though you were dead in your trespasses, your flesh uncircumcised, He made you live with Christ, He forgave us all our trespasses,

he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.

nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.

And your

So the tongue is a small member of the body, but it can boast of great exploits. What a forest is set ablaze by a little spark of fire!