Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
And do not present your body-parts as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God, as living out of the dead, and your body-parts as instruments of righteousness to God,
New American Standard Bible
and do not go on
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
And do not offer any parts
International Standard Version
Stop offering the parts of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have been brought from death to life and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God.
American Standard Version
neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Amplified
Do not go on offering members of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness. But offer yourselves to God [in a decisive act] as those alive [raised] from the dead [to a new life], and your members [all of your abilities—sanctified, set apart] as instruments of righteousness [yielded] to God.
An Understandable Version
And do not offer the parts of your bodies [i.e., hands, eyes, etc. See Matt. 5:29-30] as tools for [accomplishing] evil purposes; but [instead] offer yourselves to God, as [people who are] alive from the dead [i.e., no longer under the power of sin] and the parts of your bodies as tools for [accomplishing] righteous purposes for God.
Anderson New Testament
and present not your members to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead; and your members to God, as instruments of righteousness.
Bible in Basic English
And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
Common New Testament
Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
Daniel Mace New Testament
neither yield your members as instruments to iniquity: but yield yourselves unto God, as being alive after having been dead; and your members as instruments of righteousness.
Darby Translation
Neither yield your members instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God as alive from among the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God.
Godbey New Testament
neither present your members arms of iniquity unto sin; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members arms of righteousness unto God.
Goodspeed New Testament
and you must not offer the parts of your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrong, but offer yourselves to God as men brought back from death to life, and offer the parts of your bodies to him as instruments of uprightness.
John Wesley New Testament
Neither present your members to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members to God, as instruments of righteousness.
Julia Smith Translation
Neither present ye your members weapons of injustice to sin: but present yourselves to God, as living from the dead, and your members weapons of justice to God.
King James 2000
Neither yield 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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
and do not present your members to sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members to God [as] instruments of righteousness.
Modern King James verseion
Do not yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but yield yourselves to God, as one alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Neither give ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: But give yourselves unto God, as they that are alive from death. And give your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Moffatt New Testament
you must not let sin have your members for the service of vice, you must dedicate yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, dedicating your members to God for the service of righteousness.
Montgomery New Testament
Do not continue to present any part of your body to sin to be used as a weapon of unrighteousness. On the contrary, be presenting yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and the various parts of your bodies to be used as weapons of righteousness.
NET Bible
and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.
New Heart English Bible
Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Noyes New Testament
nor yield up your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but yield up yourselves to God, as being alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
Sawyer New Testament
neither present your members as instruments of wickedness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
The Emphasized Bible
Neither be presenting your members as weapons of unrighteousness unto sin, but present yourselves unto God as though alive from among the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness unto God;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Neither present your members as weapons of unrighteousness for sin: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness for God.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Do not offer any part of your bodies to Sin, in the cause of unrighteousness, but once for all offer yourselves to God (as those who, though once dead, now have Life), and devote every part of your bodies to the cause of righteousness.
Webster
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin: but yield yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God:
Weymouth New Testament
and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin to use. On the contrary surrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead, and surrender your several faculties to God, to be used as weapons to maintain the right.
Williams New Testament
and you must stop offering to sin the parts of your bodies as instruments for wrongdoing, but you must once for all offer yourselves to God as persons raised from the dead to live on perpetually, and once for all offer the parts of your bodies to God as instruments for right-doing.
World English Bible
Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Worrell New Testament
neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
Worsley New Testament
Neither yield your bodies as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
Youngs Literal Translation
neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;
Themes
Being Devoted to God » Should be » With our members
Spiritual death » Is the state of all men by nature
Spiritual death » Saints are raised from
Grace » The reward for being under grace
Holiness » Saints » Should yield their members as instruments of
Resist temptation » The duty of resisting
Righteousness » Saints » Should yield their members as instruments of
Sin » Why sin does not have dominion over you
Topics
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Devotionals
Devotionals about Romans 6:13
Devotionals containing Romans 6:13
References
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Romans 6:13
Prayers for Romans 6:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Formerly Dead To Sin, Now Alive In Christ
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body in order to obey it, in its lusts. 13 And do not present your body-parts as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God, as living out of the dead, and your body-parts as instruments of righteousness to God, 14 for sin will not have dominion over you. For ye are not under law, but under grace.
Phrases
Cross References
Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins were working in our body-parts (through the law) in order to bear fruit to death.
Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, your reasonable service.
Colossians 3:5
Put to death therefore your body-parts on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
1 Peter 2:24
Who himself took up our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sins, might live to the righteousness of him from whose wound ye were healed.
Romans 6:16
Know ye not, that to what ye present yourselves as bondmen for obedience, ye are bondmen to what ye obey, whether of sin for death, or of obedience for righteousness?
Romans 6:19
(I speak man-like because of the weakness of your flesh). For as ye presented your body-parts servile to uncleanness, and to lawlessness for lawlessness, so now present your body-parts servile to righteousness for sanctification.
James 3:5-6
So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles.
Romans 6:11
So also ye, reckon yourselves to be indeed dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Peter 4:2
in order to live the remaining time in flesh, no longer by lusts of men, but by the will of God.
Deuteronomy 25:16
For all who do such things, [even] all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to LORD thy God.
2 Chronicles 30:8
Now be ye not stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
Psalm 37:30
The mouth of a righteous man talks of wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
Proverbs 12:18
There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.
Isaiah 3:10-11
Say ye of the righteous, that [it is] well, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked man forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to LORD, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Ezekiel 18:4
Behold, all souls are mine, as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul that sins, it shall die.
Daniel 3:28
Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his [heavenly] agent, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and have yielded their bodies
Luke 15:24
because this my son was dead, and became alive again. And he was lost, and is found. And they began to be cheerful.
Luke 15:32
But it was needful to make merry and be glad, because this thy brother was dead, and became alive again, and was lost, and was found.
John 5:24
Truly, truly, I say to you, that he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life. And he does not come into condemnation, but has passed from death into life.
Romans 1:29
having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;
Romans 2:8-9
but to those of self-interest, and who indeed disobey the truth but have confidence in unrighteousness--anger and wrath,
Romans 7:23
but I see a different law in my body-parts, warring against the law of my mind, and taking me captive in the law of sin, which is in my body-parts.
1 Corinthians 6:9
Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,
1 Corinthians 6:15
Know ye not that your bodies are body-parts of Christ? Therefore, having taken the body-parts of the Christ, should I make them body-parts of a harlot? May it not happen!
1 Corinthians 6:20
for ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which is of God.
2 Corinthians 5:15
And he died for all so that those who live would no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and was raised.
2 Corinthians 8:5
And it was not as we expected, but first they gave themselves to the Lord and to us through the will of God,
2 Corinthians 10:4
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in God for the demolition of strongholds,
Ephesians 2:5
even us being dead in the transgressions, he made alive together with the Christ (ye are saved by grace),
Ephesians 5:14
Therefore he says, Awake, thou who sleep. And arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.
Philippians 1:20
according to my eager expectation and hope that I will be shamed in nothing. But with all boldness, now as always, Christ will also be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death.
Colossians 2:13
And you, being dead in transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, you he made alive together with him, having forgiven us all the transgressions,
2 Thessalonians 2:12
so that they might be condemned--all those who did not believe the truth, but who delighted in unrighteousness.
James 4:1
From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here: from your pleasures warring in your body-parts?
2 Peter 2:13-15
getting back a wage of unrighteousness. Men who consider soft living in the daytime to be pleasure, spots and blemishes reveling in their deceitfulness, feasting together with you,
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous so that he will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from every unrighteousness.