Romans 6:13
neither present ye your members instruments of unrighteousness to the sin, but present yourselves to God as living out of the dead, and your members instruments of righteousness to God;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
12Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;
14for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 25:16for the abomination of Jehovah thy God [is] any one doing these things, any one doing iniquity.
Psalms 37:30The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment.
Isaiah 3:10Say ye to the righteous, that [it is] good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat.
Ezekiel 18:4Lo, all the souls are Mine, As the soul of the father, So also the soul of the son — they are Mine, The soul that is sinning — it doth die.
Luke 15:24because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.
John 5:24'Verily, verily, I say to you — He who is hearing my word, and is believing Him who sent me, hath life age-during, and to judgment he doth not come, but hath passed out of the death to the 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 →