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Selected Verse: Romans 6:13 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ro 6:13 |
King James |
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Neither yield ye your members instruments of unrighteousness unto Sin, but yield yourselves--this is the great surrender.
unto God as those that are alive from the dead, and--as the fruit of this.
your members--till now prostituted to sin.
instruments of righteousness unto God--But what if indwelling sin should prove too strong for us? The reply is: But it will not. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Neither yield ye your members - Do not give up, or devote, or employ your members, etc. The word "members" here refers to the members of the body - the hands, feet, tongue, etc. It is a specification of what in Rom 6:12 is included under the general term "body;" see Rom 7:5, Rom 7:23; Co1 6:15; Co1 12:12, Co1 12:18, Co1 12:20.
As instruments - This word ὁπλα hopla properly signifies "arms;" or implements of war; but it also denotes an instrument of any kind which we use for defense or aid. Here it means that we should not devote our members - our hands, tongue, etc., as if under the direction of sinful passions and corrupt desires, to accomplish purposes of iniquity. We should not make the members of our bodies the slaves of sin reigning within us.
Unto sin - In the service of sin; to work iniquity.
But yield yourselves ... - Give or devote yourselves to God.
That are alive - Rom 6:11.
And your members ... - Christians should devote every member of the body to God and to his service. Their tongue should be consecrated to his praise, and to the office of truth, and kindness, and benevolence; their hands should be employed in useful labor for him and his cause; their feet should be swift in his service, and should not go in the paths of iniquity; their eyes should contemplate his works to excite thanksgiving and praise; their ears should not be employed to listen to words of deceit, or songs of dangerous and licentious tendency, or to persuasion that would lead astray, but should be open to catch the voice of God as he utters his will in the Book of truth, or as he speaks in the gale, the zephyr, the rolling thunder, the ocean, or in the great events of his providence. He speaks to us every day, and we should hear him; he spreads his glories before us, and we should survey them to praise him; he commands, and our hands, and heart, and feet should obey. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
unrighteousness
Righteousness. (Rom 6:13); (Rom 6:16); (Rom 6:18); (Rom 6:19); (Rom 6:20);
(See Scofield) - (Rom 10:10).
sin
Sin
(See Scofield) - (Rom 3:23). |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Yield (παριστάνετε)
Put at the service of; render. Rev., present. Compare Luk 2:22; Act 9:41; Rom 12:1. See on Act 1:3.
Members (μέλη)
Physical; though some include mental faculties. Compare Col 3:5, where members is expounded by fornication, uncleanness, etc., the physical being a symbol of the moral, of which it is the instrument.
Instruments (ὅπλα)
The word is used from the earliest times of tools or instruments generally. In Homer of a ship's tackle, smith's tools, implements of war, and in the last sense more especially in later Greek. In the New Testament distinctly of instruments of war (Joh 18:3; Co2 6:7; Co2 10:4). Here probably with the same meaning, the conception being that of sin and righteousness as respectively rulers of opposing sovereignties (compare reign, Rom 6:12, and have dominion, Rom 6:14), and enlisting men in their armies. Hence the exhortation is, do not offer your members as weapons with which the rule of unrighteousness may be maintained, but offer them to God in the service of righteousness.
Of unrighteousness (ἀδικίας)
See on Pe2 2:13.
Yield (παραστήσατε)
Rev., present. The same word as before, but in a different tense. The present tense, be presenting, denotes the daily habit, the giving of the hand, the tongue, etc., to the service of sin as temptation appeals to each. Here the aorist, as in Rom 12:1, denotes an act of self-devotion once for all.
As those that are alive (ὡς ζῶντας)
The best texts read ὡσεί as if alive. This brings out more clearly the figurative character of the exhortation.
From the dead (ἐκ νεκρῶν)
Note the preposition out of. See on Luk 16:31. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Neither present your members to sin - To corrupt nature, a mere tyrant. But to God - Your lawful King. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Neither yield ye your members - Do not yield to temptation. It is no sin to be tempted, the sin lies in yielding. While the sin exists only in Satan's solicitation, it is the devil's sin, not ours: when we yield, we make the devil's sin our own: then we Enter Into temptation. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Satan himself cannot force you to sin: till he wins over your will, he cannot bring you into subjection. You may be tempted; but yield not to the temptation.
Yield yourselves unto God - Let God have your wills; keep them ever on his side; there they are safe, and there they will be active. Satan cannot force the will, and God will not. Indeed it would cease to be will were it forced by either: it is essential to its being that it be free.
And your members as instruments, etc. - Let soul and body be employed in the service of your Maker; let him have your hearts; and with them, your heads, your hands, your feet. Think and devise what is pure; speak what is true, and to the use of edifying; work that which is just and good; and walk steadily in the way that leads to everlasting felicity. Be holy within and holy without. |
11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.
18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
3 Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.
5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
41 And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, presented her alive.
22 And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;