Romans 6:13
Do not present the parts of your body to sin, to be tools used for unrighteousness. But present yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life, and present the parts of your body to God as tools to be used for righteousness.
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In Context
12Therefore do not let sin rule in your mortal body in order that you may obey its lusts.
14Do not allow sin to rule over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:16For all who do such things, all that act unrighteously, are an abomination to Yahweh your God.
Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous person speaks wisdom 1 and increases justice. 1
Isaiah 3:10Tell the righteous person that it will be well, for they will eat the fruit of their deeds. 1
Ezekiel 18:4Behold! Every life belong to me—the life of the father as well as the life of the son, they belong to me! The soul who sins is the one who will die!
Luke 15:24For my son was dead, and now he is alive. He was lost, and now he is found.' Then they began to celebrate.
John 5:24Truly, truly, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but he has passed 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 →