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

Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient servants you are his (voluntary) servants because you obey him? This could be obedience to sin with death in view or obedience to righteousness with holiness in view?

When we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, worked in our members to bring forth fruit to death.

Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and unite them with (turn them into) the members of a prostitute? God forbid!

Make your members that are upon the earth dead with regard to fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (greed), which is idolatry.

The tongue also is a little member. It boasts great things. Consider how great a forest fire a small fire kindles!

What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you?

Instruments

The weapons we use in our fight are not of the flesh but God's powerful weapons, which we use to destroy strongholds. We destroy false arguments.

But yield

I request (urge) (implore) you brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

Do not stiffen your neck like your fathers, but yield to Jehovah and enter his sanctuary that he has consecrated from generation to generation. Serve Jehovah your God that His burning anger may turn away from you.

Nebuchadnezzar said: Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! He sent his angel and delivered his servants who trusted in him. They violated the king's command and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

You are bought with a price! Therefore glorify God in your body.

This is not as we hoped. First they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God.

I will not be put to shame according to my earnest expectation and hope. With all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in me, whether by life or by death.

Alive

Consider yourselves to be dead with reference to sin, but alive with reference to God through Christ Jesus.

My son was dead. Now he is alive. He was lost. Now he has been found. The feasting began.'

Truly, Truly I say to you, he who hears my word, and believes him that sent me, has everlasting life. He will not receive judgment for he has passed out of death into life.

He died for all that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for their sakes and rose again.

even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. For by grace (loving-kindness) you have been saved.

For this reason it says: Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses.

He bore our sins in his body upon the stake, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed because of his wounds (stripes).

From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires (lusts).

And your

The mouth of the righteous reflects on wisdom. His tongue speaks what is fair.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword. The tongue of the wise brings a cure.

The tongue also is a little member. It boasts great things. Consider how great a forest fire a small fire kindles!

General references

If the sore spreads after the priest has examined you and pronounced you clean, you must return to the priest again.

The priest will take some of the blood from the guilt offering and put it on the right ear lobe, on the right thumb, and on the big toe of the right foot of the one to be cleansed.

Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.