Romans 6:13
Neither yield your bodies as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
In Context
12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to obey it in the lusts thereof.
14For sin shall have no power over you, inasmuch as ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Cross References
Luke 15:24for this my son was dead, and is alive again, and 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 in Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come under condemnation; but is 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 →