Romans 6:13
neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:
14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:16For all that do such things; even all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous talketh of wisdom, and his tongue speaketh judgment.
Isaiah 3:10Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their 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 be merry.
John 5:24Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, 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 →