Romans 6:13
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.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
12Let not then sin reign in your mortal body, bringing you into subjection to its lusts,
14For sin shall not hold dominion over you; for ye are not under the Law, but under grace.
Cross References
Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh what is right.
Isaiah 3:10Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well with him, For he shall eat the fruit of his doings.
Ezekiel 18:4Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son, is mine; the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Luke 15:24For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to make merry.
John 5:24Truly, truly do I say to you, He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and cometh not into condemnation, but hath 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 →