Romans 6:13
Nor should you offer the parts of your body as instruments of iniquity for sin. Instead, offer yourselves to God, as if you were living after death, and offer the parts of your body as instruments of justice for God.
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In Context
12Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body, such that you would obey its desires.
14For sin should not have dominion over you. For you are not under the law, but under grace.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:16For the Lord your God abominates him who does these things, and he loathes all injustice.
Isaiah 3:10Tell the just man that it is well, for he shall eat from the fruit from his own plans.
Ezekiel 18:4Behold, all souls are mine. Just as the soul of the father is mine, so also is the soul of the son. The soul that sins, the same shall die.
Luke 15:24For this son of mine was dead, and has revived; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to feast.
John 5:24Amen, amen, I say to you, that whoever hears my word, and believes in him who sent me, has eternal life, and he does not go into judgment, but instead he crosses 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 →