Romans 6:13
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.
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14For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:16For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.
Psalms 37:30The mouth of the good man says words of wisdom; the talk of his tongue is of righteousness.
Isaiah 3:10Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.
Ezekiel 18:4See, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so the soul of the son is mine: death will be the fate of the sinner's soul.
Luke 15:24For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.
John 5:24Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.
Matthew Henry on Romans 6:2-23
On Sanctification. ( a. d. 58.) 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness… Read the whole commentary →