Romans 6:13

New Century Version

Do not offer the parts of your body to serve sin, as things to be used in doing evil. Instead, offer yourselves to God as people who have died and now live. Offer the parts of your body to God to be used in doing good.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:8

Don’t be stubborn as your ancestors were, but obey the Lord willingly. Come to the Temple, which he has made holy forever. Serve the Lord your God so he will not be angry with you.

Psalm 37:30

Good people speak with wisdom, and they say what is fair.

Proverbs 12:18

Careless words stab like a sword, but wise words bring healing.

Isaiah 55:7

The wicked should stop doing wrong, and they should stop their evil thoughts. They should return to the Lord so he may have mercy on them. They should come to our God, because he will freely forgive them.

Ezekiel 18:4

Every living thing belongs to me. The life of the parent is mine, and the life of the child is mine. The person who sins is the one who will die.

Daniel 3:28

Then Nebuchadnezzar said, “Praise the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Their God has sent his angel and saved his servants from the fire! These three men trusted their God and refused to obey my command. They were willing to die rather than serve or worship any god other than their own.

Luke 15:24

My son was dead, but now he is alive again! He was lost, but now he is found!’ So they began to celebrate.

Luke 15:32

We had to celebrate and be happy because your brother was dead, but now he is alive. He was lost, but now he is found.’ ”

John 5:24

“I tell you the truth, whoever hears what I say and believes in the One who sent me has eternal life. That person will not be judged guilty but has already left death and entered life.

Romans 1:29

They are filled with every kind of sin, evil, selfishness, and hatred. They are full of jealousy, murder, fighting, lying, and thinking the worst about each other. They gossip

Romans 12:1

So brothers and sisters, since God has shown us great mercy, I beg you to offer your lives as a living sacrifice to him. Your offering must be only for God and pleasing to him, which is the spiritual way for you to worship.

Romans 6:11

In the same way, you should see yourselves as being dead to the power of sin and alive with God through Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:16

Surely you know that when you give yourselves like slaves to obey someone, then you are really slaves of that person. The person you obey is your master. You can follow sin, which brings spiritual death, or you can obey God, which makes you right with him.

Romans 6:19

I use this example because this is hard for you to understand. In the past you offered the parts of your body to be slaves to sin and evil; you lived only for evil. In the same way now you must give yourselves to be slaves of goodness. Then you will live only for God.

Romans 7:23

But I see another law working in my body, which makes war against the law that my mind accepts. That other law working in my body is the law of sin, and it makes me its prisoner.

Romans 7:5

In the past, we were ruled by our sinful selves. The law made us want to do sinful things that controlled our bodies, so the things we did were bringing us death.

1 Corinthians 6:15

Surely you know that your bodies are parts of Christ himself. So I must never take the parts of Christ and join them to a prostitute!

1 Corinthians 6:20

because you were bought by God for a price. So honor God with your bodies.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Surely you know that the people who do wrong will not inherit God’s kingdom. Do not be fooled. Those who sin sexually, worship idols, take part in adultery, those who are male prostitutes, or men who have sexual relations with other men, those who steal, are greedy, get drunk, lie about others, or rob—these people will not inherit God’s kingdom.

2 Corinthians 10:4

We fight with weapons that are different from those the world uses. Our weapons have power from God that can destroy the enemy’s strong places. We destroy people’s arguments

2 Corinthians 5:14

The love of Christ controls us, because we know that One died for all, so all have died.

2 Corinthians 5:15

Christ died for all so that those who live would not continue to live for themselves. He died for them and was raised from the dead so that they would live for him.

2 Corinthians 8:5

And they gave in a way we did not expect: They first gave themselves to the Lord and to us. This is what God wants.

Ephesians 2:5

Though we were spiritually dead because of the things we did against God, he gave us new life with Christ. You have been saved by God’s grace.

Ephesians 5:14

and everything that is made easy to see can become light. This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper! Rise from death, and Christ will shine on you.”

Deuteronomy 25:16

The Lord your God hates anyone who is dishonest and uses dishonest measures.

Philippians 1:20

I expect and hope that I will not fail Christ in anything but that I will have the courage now, as always, to show the greatness of Christ in my life here on earth, whether I live or die.

Colossians 2:13

When you were spiritually dead because of your sins and because you were not free from the power of your sinful self, God made you alive with Christ, and he forgave all our sins.

Colossians 3:5

So put all evil things out of your life: sexual sinning, doing evil, letting evil thoughts control you, wanting things that are evil, and greed. This is really serving a false god.

2 Thessalonians 2:12

So all those will be judged guilty who did not believe the truth, but enjoyed doing evil.

2 Timothy 2:15

Make every effort to give yourself to God as the kind of person he will approve. Be a worker who is not ashamed and who uses the true teaching in the right way.

James 4:1

Do you know where your fights and arguments come from? They come from the selfish desires that war within you.

1 Peter 2:24

Christ carried our sins in his body on the cross so we would stop living for sin and start living for what is right. And you are healed because of his wounds.

1 Peter 4:2

Strengthen yourselves so that you will live here on earth doing what God wants, not the evil things people want.

1 John 1:9

But if we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins, because we can trust God to do what is right. He will cleanse us from all the wrongs we have done.