Romans 6:13
And also give not up your members as instruments of evil unto sin, but give up yourselves to God, as those who have been resuscitated from the dead; and let your members be instruments for the righteousness of God.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
12Therefore let not sin reign in your dead body, so that ye obey its lusts.
14And sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Cross References
Luke 15:24For, this my son was dead, and is alive; he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.
John 5:24Verily, verily, I say to you, That he who heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath life eternal, and will not come into condemnation, but hath 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 →