Romans 6:13

Do not keep handing over the parts of your body to sin as weapons for wrongdoing. Instead, hand yourselves over to God, as people who were dead and are now alive, and hand over the parts of your body to God as weapons for righteousness.
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Treated in 12 passages across the library.

Where it is preached

  1. Communion with God · John Owen

    Of communion with Christ in privileges cites Rom. vi. 13

    …is willingness. “They yield themselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead,” Rom. vi. 13; they yield themselves, — give up themselves willingly, cheerfully, freely. “With my…

  2. Portraits of Courage – Watchman Nee · Ochorus Originals

    The Normal Christian Life cites Romans 6:13

    …instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead” (Romans 6:13, ASV). Knowing and reckoning lead to consecration. Grace is not passivity. The believer…

  3. Abide in Christ · Andrew Murray

    And Not in Self cites Rom. vi. 13

    …death. As you yielded yourself a sacrifice on God’s altar as one alive from the dead (Rom. vi. 13, xii. 1), so each power of your nature — each talent, gift, possession, that is really to…

  4. Portraits of Courage – Watchman Nee · Ochorus Originals

    Appendix a: Twenty-Five Core Teachings of Watchman Nee cites Romans 6:13

    …God's declaration. Third, present: “present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead” (Romans 6:13, ASV). Grace leads into consecrated action. The sequence is pastorally powerful. If…

  5. The Master’s Indwelling · Andrew Murray

    Christ Our Life cites Romans 6:13

    …to say: “Present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life” Romans 6:13. How often does a Christian hear solemn words about his being alive to God, and his…

  6. The Key Teachings of A. B. Simpson · Ochorus Originals

    Christ Our Sanctifier cites ROMANS 6:13

    …your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God. ROMANS 6:13 Whether that yielding is a crisis or the first of ten thousand small consecrations, it…

  7. The Key Teachings of Watchman Nee · Ochorus Originals

    Present cites ROMANS 6:13

    …that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. ROMANS 6:13 The third word is present, or as the Authorised Version has it, yield. Here the teaching…

  8. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 25 — Of the Last Resurrection cites Rom. 6:13

    …exhortation of Paul, “Yield ye your members as instruments of righteousness unto God,” (Rom. 6:13), would be frigid, did he not add, as he does in another passage, “He that raised up…

  9. Knots Untied · J. C. Ryle

    Regeneration cites Rom. vi. 13

    …(Acts iii. 19.) The Epistle to the Romans speaks of it as a “being alive from the dead.” (Rom. vi. 13.) The Second Epistle to the Corinthians calls it “being a new creature: old things have…

  10. The God of All Comfort · Hannah Whitall Smith

    Conformed to the Image of Christ cites Romans 6:11-13

    …brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness” (Romans 6:11-13). The same kind of faith that allows us to grasp the forgiveness of sins also brings…

  11. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Introduction cites Rom. vi. 13-19

    …chapter of Romans, and there within six verses the expression occurs five times. (See Rom. vi. 13-19.) But even there the word will not bear the sense of “placing ourselves passively in the…

  12. Portraits of Courage – Watchman Nee · Ochorus Originals

    Appendix B: Chapter-by-Chapter Study and Reflection Guide cites Romans 6:6-13

    …to revisit Acts 2:36; Ephesians 2:8-10; Romans 12:1; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Acts 24:16; Romans 6:6-13. Reflection 1. Has your understanding of salvation become detached from the lordship of…

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