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Romans 6:13

Weymouth NT

and no longer lend your faculties as unrighteous weapons for Sin to use. On the contrary surrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead, and surrender your several faculties to God, to be used as weapons to maintain the right.

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for my son here was dead and has come to life again: he was lost and has been found.' »And they began to be merry.

We are bound to make merry and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has come back to life, he was lost and has been found.'«

»In most solemn truth I tell you that he who listens to my teaching and believes Him who sent me, has the Life of the Ages, and does not come under judgement, but has passed over out of death into Life.«

Their hearts overflowed with all sorts of dishonesty, mischief, greed, malice. They were full of envy and murder, and were quarrelsome, crafty, and spiteful.

I plead with you therefore, brethren, by the compassionsof God, to present all your faculties to Him as a living and holy sacrifice acceptable to Him. This with you will be an act of reasonable worship.

In the same way you also must regard yourselves as dead in relation to sin, but as alive in relation to God, because you are in Christ Jesus.

Do you not know that if you surrender yourselves as bondservants to obey any one, you become the bondservants of him whom you obey, whether the bondservants of Sin (with death as the result) or of Duty (resulting in righteousness)?

your human infirmity leads me to employ these familiar figures–and just as you once surrendered your faculties into bondage to Impurity and ever-increasing disregard of Law, so you must now surrender them into bondage to Righteousness ever advancing towards perfect holiness.

but I discover within me a different Law at war with the Law of my understanding, and leading me captive to the Law which is everywhere at work in my body–the Law of sin.

For whilst we were under the thraldom of our earthly natures, sinful passions – made sinful by the Law– were always being aroused to action in our bodily faculties that they might yield fruit to death.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them the members of a prostitute? No, indeed.

And you are not your own, for you have been redeemed at infinite cost. Therefore glorify God in your bodies.

Do you not know that unrighteous men will not inherit God's Kingdom? Cherish no delusion here. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor any who are guilty of unnatural crime,

The weapons with which we fight are not human weapons, but are mighty for God in overthrowing strong fortresses.

For the love of Christ overmasters us, the conclusion at which we have arrived being this–that One having died for all, His death was their death,

and that He died for all in order that the living may no longer live to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again.

They not only did this, as we had expected, but first of all in obedience to God's will they gave their own selves to the Lord and to us.

caused us, dead though we were through our offences, to live with Christ –it is by grace that you have been saved–

For this reason it is said, »Rise, sleeper; rise from among the dead, and Christ will shed light upon you.«

in fulfilment of my eager expectation and hope that I shall never have reason to feel ashamed, but that by my perfect freedom of speech Christ will be glorified in me, now as always, either by my life or by my death.

And to you –dead as you once were in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your natural state– He has nevertheless given Life with Himself, having forgiven us all our transgressions.

Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations–fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.

in order that all may come under judgement who have refused to believe the truth and have taken pleasure in unrighteousness.

Earnestly seek to commend yourself to God as a servant who, because of his straightforward dealing with the word of truth, has no reason to feel any shame.

What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures?

The burden of our sins He Himself carried in His own body to the Cross and bore it there, so that we, having died so far as our sins are concerned, may live righteous lives. By His wounds yours have been healed.

that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God.

If we confess our sins, He is so faithful and just that He forgives us our sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.




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