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Romans 6:13

James Moffatt - New Testament

you must not let sin have your members for the service of vice, you must dedicate yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, dedicating your members to God for the service of righteousness.

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Well then, my brothers, I appeal to you by all the mercy of God to dedicate your bodies as a living sacrifice, consecrated and acceptable to God; that is your cult, a spiritual rite.

Do you not know you are the servants of the master you obey, of the master to whom you yield yourselves obedient, whether it is Sin, whose service ends in death, or Obedience, whose service ends in righteousness?

he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

For when we were unspiritual, the sinful cravings excited by the Law were active in our members and made us fruitful to Death;

nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.

For though you were dead in your trespasses, your flesh uncircumcised, He made you live with Christ, He forgave us all our trespasses,

you were bought for a price; then glorify God with your body.

if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, he forgives our sins and cleanses us from all iniquity;

Do you not know your bodies are members of Christ? Am I to take Christ's members and devote them to a harlot? Never!

he made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved);

my eager desire and hope being that I may never feel ashamed but that now as ever I may do honour to Christ in my own person by fearless courage. Whether that means life or death, no matter!

What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites

(I use this human analogy to bring the truth home to your weak nature.) As you once dedicated your members to the service of vice and lawlessness, so now dedicate them to the service of righteousness that means consecration.

the weapons of my warfare are not weapons of the flesh, but divinely strong to demolish fortresses —

So you must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Thus it is said, 'Wake up, O sleeper, and rise from the dead; so Christ will shine upon you.'

They have done more than I expected; they gave themselves to the Lord, to begin with, and then (for so God willed it) they put themselves at my disposal.

and that he died for all in order to have the living live no longer for themselves but for him who died and rose for them.

but then I find quite another law in my members which conflicts with the law of my mind and makes me a prisoner to sin's law that resides in my members.

We could not but make merry and rejoice, for your brother here was dead and has come to life again, he was lost but he has been found.' "

Where do conflicts, where do wrangles come from, in your midst? Is it not from these passions of yours that war among your members?

till they are filled with all manner of wickedness, depravity, lust, and viciousness, filled to the brim with envy, murder, quarrels, intrigues, and malignity — slanderers,

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

for my son here was dead and he has come to life, he was lost and he is found.' So they began to make merry.

so that all may be doomed who refuse faith in the Truth but delight in evil.

for I am controlled by the love of Christ, convinced that as One has died for all, then all have died,

Do your utmost to let God see that you at least are a sound workman, with no need to be ashamed of the way you handle the word of the Truth.




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