Romans 6:13

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Nor should you offer the parts of your body as instruments of iniquity for sin. Instead, offer yourselves to God, as if you were living after death, and offer the parts of your body as instruments of justice for God.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:8

Do not choose to harden your necks, as your fathers did. Surrender to the hands of the Lord. And go to his Sanctuary, which he has sanctified unto eternity. Serve the Lord, the God of your fathers, and the fury of his wrath will be turned away from you.

Proverbs 12:18

He who makes promises is also jabbed, as if with a sword, in conscience. But the tongue of the wise is reasonable.

Isaiah 55:7

Let the impious one abandon his way, and the iniquitous man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will take pity on him, and to our God, for he is great in forgiveness.

Ezekiel 18:4

Behold, all souls are mine. Just as the soul of the father is mine, so also is the soul of the son. The soul that sins, the same shall die.

Daniel 3:28

For you have made equally true judgments in all the things that you have brought upon us and upon Jerusalem, the holy city of our fathers. For in truth and in judgment, you have brought down all these things because of our sins.

Luke 15:24

For this son of mine was dead, and has revived; he was lost, and is found.' And they began to feast.

Luke 15:32

But it was necessary to feast and to rejoice. For this brother of yours was dead, and has revived; he was lost, and is found.' "

John 5:24

Amen, amen, I say to you, that whoever hears my word, and believes in him who sent me, has eternal life, and he does not go into judgment, but instead he crosses from death into life.

Romans 1:29

having been completely filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, spite, gossiping;

Romans 12:1

And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind.

Romans 6:11

And so, you should consider yourselves to be certainly dead to sin, and to be living for God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:16

Do you not know to whom you are offering yourselves as servants under obedience? You are the servants of whomever you obey: whether of sin, unto death, or of obedience, unto justice.

Romans 6:19

I am speaking in human terms because of the infirmity of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of your body to serve impurity and iniquity, for the sake of iniquity, so also have you now yielded the parts of your body to serve justice, for the sake of sanctification.

Romans 7:23

But I perceive another law within my body, fighting against the law of my mind, and captivating me with the law of sin which is in my body.

Romans 7:5

For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were under the law, operated within our bodies, so as to bear fruit unto death.

1 Corinthians 6:15

Do you not know that your bodies are a part of Christ? So then, should I take a part of Christ and make it a part of a harlot? Let it not be so!

1 Corinthians 6:20

For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that the iniquitous will not possess the kingdom of God? Do not choose to wander astray. For neither fornicators, nor servants of idolatry, nor adulterers,

2 Corinthians 10:4

For the weapons of our battles are not carnal, yet still they are powerful with God, unto the destruction of fortifications: tearing down every counsel

2 Corinthians 5:14

For the charity of Christ urges us on, in consideration of this: that if one died for all, then all have died.

2 Corinthians 5:15

And Christ died for all, so that even those who live might not now live for themselves, but for him who died for them and who rose again.

2 Corinthians 8:5

And this is beyond what we had hoped, since they gave themselves, first of all to the Lord, and then also to us, through the will of God,

Ephesians 2:5

even when we were dead in our sins, has enlivened us together in Christ, by whose grace you have been saved.

Ephesians 5:14

Because of this, it is said: "You who are sleeping: awaken, and rise up from the dead, and so shall the Christ enlighten you."

Deuteronomy 25:16

For the Lord your God abominates him who does these things, and he loathes all injustice.

Philippians 1:20

by means of my own expectation and hope. For in nothing shall I be confounded. Instead, with all confidence, now just as always, Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

Colossians 2:13

And when you were dead in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he enlivened you, together with him, forgiving you of all transgressions,

Colossians 3:5

Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols,

2 Thessalonians 2:12

Yet we must always give thanks to God for you, brothers, beloved of God, because God has chosen you as first-fruits for salvation, by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.

2 Timothy 2:15

Be solicitous in the task of presenting yourself before God as a proven and unashamed worker who has handled the Word of Truth correctly.

James 4:1

Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members?

1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sin, would live for justice. By his wounds, you have been healed.

1 Peter 4:2

so that now he may live, for the remainder of his time in the flesh, not by the desires of men, but by the will of God.

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.