Romans 6:13
Do not offer any part of your bodies to sin, in the cause of unrighteousness, but once for all offer yourselves to God (as those who, though once dead, now have life), and devote every part of your bodies to the cause of righteousness.
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In Context
12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies and compel you to obey its cravings.
14For sin will not lord it over you. You are living under the reign, not of Law, but of love.
Cross References
Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous murmurs wisdom, and words of justice are on their tongues.
Luke 15:24for here is my son who was dead, and is alive again, was lost, and is found.’ So they began making merry.
John 5:24In truth I tell you that the person who listens to my message and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and does not come under condemnation, but has already 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 →