Romans 6:19

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Romans 6:19

(I use this human analogy to bring the truth home to your weak nature.) As you once dedicated your members to the service of vice and lawlessness, so now dedicate them to the service of righteousness that means consecration.

Romans 3:5

But if our iniquity thus serves to bring out the justice of God, what are we to infer? That it is unfair of God to inflict his anger on us? (I speak in a merely human way.)

Romans 6:13

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.

Romans 6:16-17

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?

Romans 8:26

So too the Spirit assists us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray aright, but the Spirit pleads for us with sighs that are beyond words,

Romans 15:1

We who are strong ought to bear the burdens that the weak make for themselves and us. We are not to please ourselves.

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is no credit to you. Do you not know that a morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump?

1 Corinthians 6:11

Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

1 Corinthians 9:8

Human arguments, you say? But does not Scripture urge the very same?

1 Corinthians 15:32-33

What would it avail me that, humanly speaking, I 'fought with wild beasts' at Ephesus? If dead men do not rise, let us eat and drink, for we will be dead to-morrow!

Galatians 3:15

To take an illustration from human life, my brothers. Once a man's will is ratified, no one else annuls it or adds a codicil to it.

Ephesians 2:2-3

in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air ??the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience

Colossians 3:5-7

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

2 Timothy 2:16-17

Avoid all that profane jargon, for it leads people still further into irreligion,

Hebrews 4:15

for ours is no high priest who is incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every respect like ourselves, yet without sinning.

Hebrews 12:15

see to it that no one misses the grace of God, that no root of bitterness grows up to be a trouble by contaminating all the rest of you;

1 Peter 4:2-4

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Romans 6:19

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

I speak

Because

Romans 8:26

Romans 15:1

Hebrews 4:15

For as ye

1 Peter 4:2

Unto iniquity

Hebrews 12:15

Now yield

Romans 6:13

Unto holiness

Romans 6:22

General references

Colossians 3:7

Bible References

I speak

But if our iniquity thus serves to bring out the justice of God, what are we to infer? That it is unfair of God to inflict his anger on us? (I speak in a merely human way.)

Human arguments, you say? But does not Scripture urge the very same?

What would it avail me that, humanly speaking, I 'fought with wild beasts' at Ephesus? If dead men do not rise, let us eat and drink, for we will be dead to-morrow!

To take an illustration from human life, my brothers. Once a man's will is ratified, no one else annuls it or adds a codicil to it.

Because

So too the Spirit assists us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray aright, but the Spirit pleads for us with sighs that are beyond words,

We who are strong ought to bear the burdens that the weak make for themselves and us. We are not to please ourselves.

for ours is no high priest who is incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every respect like ourselves, yet without sinning.

For as ye

Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

in which you moved as you followed the course of this world, under the sway of the prince of the air ??the spirit which is at present active within those sons of disobedience

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

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

Unto iniquity

Your boasting is no credit to you. Do you not know that a morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump?

Make no mistake about this: 'bad company is the ruin of good character.'

Avoid all that profane jargon, for it leads people still further into irreligion,

see to it that no one misses the grace of God, that no root of bitterness grows up to be a trouble by contaminating all the rest of you;

Now yield

Unto holiness

but now that you are set free from sin, now that you have passed into the service of God, your gain is consecration, and the end of that is life eternal.

General references

Once you moved among them, when you lived in them;