Don’t become obstinate , now as your ancestors did. Give your allegiance to the Lord, and come to his sanctuary that he has consecrated for ever. Serve the Lord your God so that he may turn his burning anger away from you,
Romans 6:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised And do not offer any parts of it to sin as weapons for unrighteousness. But as those who are alive from the dead, offer yourselves to God, and all the parts of yourselves to God as weapons for righteousness. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Do not continue offering or yielding your bodily members [and faculties] to sin as instruments (tools) of wickedness. But offer and yield yourselves to God as though you have been raised from the dead to [perpetual] life, and your bodily members [and faculties] to God, presenting them as implements of righteousness. American Standard Version (1901) neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. Common English Bible Don’t offer parts of your body to sin, to be used as weapons to do wrong. Instead, present yourselves to God as people who have been brought back to life from the dead, and offer all the parts of your body to God to be used as weapons to do right. Catholic Public Domain Version 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Neither yield ye your members as instruments of iniquity unto sin; but present yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of justice unto God. |
Don’t become obstinate , now as your ancestors did. Give your allegiance to the Lord, and come to his sanctuary that he has consecrated for ever. Serve the Lord your God so that he may turn his burning anger away from you,
There is one who speaks rashly, like a piercing sword; but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Let the wicked one abandon his way and the sinful one his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, so that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will freely forgive.
Look, every life belongs to me. The life of the father is like the life of the son #– #both belong to me. The person who sins is the one who will die.
Nebuchadnezzar exclaimed, ‘Praise to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! He sent his angel , and rescued his servants who trusted in him. They violated the king’s command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.
because this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found! ” So they began to celebrate.
But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.” ’
‘Truly I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not come under judgement but has passed from death to life.
They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
Therefore, brothers and sisters, in view of the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.
So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey #– #either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?
I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.
but I see a different law in the parts of my body, , waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.
For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused through the law were working in us , to bear fruit for death.
Don’t you know that your bodies are a part of Christ’s body? So should I take a part of Christ’s body and make it part of a prostitute? Absolutely not!
Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or males who have sex with males, ,
since the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but are powerful through God for the demolition of strongholds. We demolish arguments
For the love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion, that one died for all, and therefore all died.
And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.
and not just as we had hoped. Instead, they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us by God’s will.
made us alive with Christ even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!
for what makes everything visible is light. Therefore it is said: Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.
For everyone who does such things and acts unfairly is detestable to the Lord your God.
My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all courage, Christ will be highly honoured in my body, whether by life or by death.
And when you were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive with him and forgave us all our trespasses.
Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
so that all will be condemned #– #those who did not believe the truth but delighted in unrighteousness.
Be diligent to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, correctly teaching the word of truth.
What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from your passions that wage war within you?
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree; so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness. By his wounds , you have been healed.
in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.