Romans 6:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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 unrighteousness serve to display the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicteth punishment? (I am speaking as men do.)

Is it on mans authority that I am saying these things, or doth not the Law too say the same?

If with the views of men I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead rise not, "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

Brethren, I speak according to what is practised among men; no one sets aside even a human covenant, or makes additions to it, after it has been ratified.

Because

In like manner the Spirit also helpeth our weakness; for we know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit itself intercedeth with groans which cannot be expressed in words.

We then who are strong ought to hear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

For we have not a highpriest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who hath in all points been tempted as we are, without sin.

For as ye

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.

And such were some of you; but ye were washed, but ye were made holy, but ye were accepted as righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

in which ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience;

Make dead therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

that ye may no longer live the remaining time in the flesh after the lusts of men, but after the will of God.

Unto iniquity

Know ye not, that whomever ye choose to obey as a master, his bondmen ye are, whether of sin whose fruit is death, or of obedience whose fruit is righteousness?

Your glorying is not good. Know ye not, that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

Be not deceived; "evil communications corrupt good manners."

But shun the profane babblings; for they will go on to a higher degree of ungodliness;

looking diligently, lest any one come short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and the many be thereby defiled;

Now yield

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.

Unto holiness

But now having been delivered from the slavery of sin, and having become the bondservants of God, ye have holiness as the fruit, and everlasting life as the end.

General references

In which things ye also once walked, when ye lived in them;