Romans 6:13
nor yield your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but yield yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof;
14For sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under law, but under grace.
Cross References
Luke 15:24Because this my son was dead and is alive again, was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.
John 5:24Verily, verily, I say to you, he that hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has everlasting life, and comes not into judgment, but has passed out of 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 →