Romans 6:13
Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
12Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
14For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:16For all who do such things, all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to the LORD your God.
Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.
Isaiah 3:10Tell the righteous that it will be well with them, for they will eat the fruit of their deeds.
Ezekiel 18:4Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. The soul who sins, he shall die.
Luke 15:24for this, my son, was dead and is alive again. He was lost and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.
John 5:24“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come 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 →