Romans 6:13
and don't use any parts of your body as evil tools of sin. Instead dedicate yourselves to God as those who have been brought back from death to life, and use all parts of your body as tools to do something good for God.
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In Context
12Don't let sin have control over your mortal body, don't give in to its temptations,
14Sin won't rule over you, because you're not under law but under grace.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:16Anyone who doesn't do so and cheats like this offends the Lord your God.
Psalms 37:30People who do right give good advice, explaining what is fair.
Isaiah 3:10Tell those who live right that they will be fine, for they will be happy to receive the reward for what they have done.
Ezekiel 18:4Can't you see that everyone belongs to me? Whether parents or children, they are all mine. It's the person who sins who will die.
Luke 15:24because this is my son who was dead, but who has returned alive; he was lost but now he's found.’ So they started celebrating.
John 5:24I tell you the truth: those who follow what I say and trust the one who sent me have eternal life. They won't be condemned, but have gone from death to 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 →