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

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants in obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit to death:

Know ye 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? By no means.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; lewdness, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even from your lusts that war in your members?

Instruments

(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

But yield

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

Now be ye not stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.

Then Nebuchadnezzar spoke, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath 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.

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us by the will of God:

According to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also, Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death.

Alive

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

Verily, verily, I say to you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but hath passed from death to life.

And that he died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and rose again.

Even when we were dead in sins, hath made us alive together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give thee light.

And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he made alive together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

Who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live to righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.

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

The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

General references

But if the scab shall spread much in the skin, after he hath been seen by the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen by the priest again:

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.

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