Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Romans 6:13
Neither present your members to sin — To corrupt nature, a mere tyrant. But to God — Your lawful King.
Neither present your members to sin — To corrupt nature, a mere tyrant. But to God — Your lawful King.
Verse Romans 6:13. _NEITHER YIELD YE YOUR MEMBERS_] Do not yield to temptation. It is no sin to be _tempted_, the sin lies in _yielding_. While the sin exists only in Satan's solicitation, it is the...
NEITHER YIELD YE YOUR MEMBERS - Do not give up, or devote, or employ your members, etc. The word “members” here refers to the members of the body - the hands, feet, tongue, etc. It is a specification...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. Dead with Christ to Sin. (Romans 6:1 .)_ 2. Risen with Christ and Alive to God. (Romans 6:8 .) 3. Sin shall Not Have Dominion. (Romans 6:12 .) 4. Servants to Righteousness. ...
THE CHRISTIAN'S SEVERANCE FROM SIN. Romans 6:12 f. The conflict turns on the possession of _the body:_ sin and God both claim the use of your limbs; sin must not reign in your mortal body, though that...
DYING TO LIVE (Romans 6:1-11)...
Let not sin reign in your mortal body to make you obey the body's desires. Do not go on yielding your members to sin as weapons of evil; but yield yourselves once and for all to God, as those who were...
NEITHER. Greek. _mede._ YIELD. present. INSTRUMENTS. weapons. Greek. _hoplon._ Here, 13, 12. Joh 18:3. 2 Corinthians 6:7; 2 Corinthians 10:4. UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. App-128. RIGHTEOUSNESS. App-191....
_your members_ YOUR LIMBS; the bodily organs and their constitution. The words thus = "your body," (see Romans 12:1,) only with the suggestion of its _varied_powers for good or evil. See on Romans 6:6...
ΜΗΔῈ ΠΑΡΙΣΤΆΝΕΤΕ, do not continue to lend. ΠΑΡΑΣΤΉΣΑΤΕ make a surrender once for all; cf. Moulton, p. 125. Cf. Romans 12:1. ΤΩ͂Ι ΘΕΩ͂Ι, for GOD’s use. ἘΚ ΝΕΚΡΩ͂Ν Ζ., as men that are alive after bein...
Romans 6:1 to Romans 7:6. The ethical bearing and standard of the new life in Christ. (1) Are we to conclude that the state of sin is to continue, as a provocative, so to speak, of the graciousness of...
ΠΑΡΙΣΤΆΝΕΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΠΑΡΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G3936) помещать рядом, предоставлять в распоряжение, делать что-л. доступным кому-л. (Kasemann; LN, 1:567; ВВС). О значении _praes. imper._ с отр. _см._...
YOUR MEMBERS AS INSTRUMENTS— Sinful lusts, at least those to which the Gentiles were most eminently enslaved, seem so much placed in the body and the members, that they are emphatically called _the me...
_TEXT_ Romans 6:12-14. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof: Romans 6:13 neither present your members unto sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but...
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 G...
__ Conciliation-Individual 12 A realization of our death to sin and life in Christ will give us power to cope with sin, always remembering that sin cannot bring us into disfavor because of the super...
6:13 yield (h-2) There is a distinction between the present tense, which has a continuous present sense, and the aorist, which gives the act in itself. 'Neither yield your members,' ver. 13 (present...
THE NEW RIGHTEOUSNESS IN UNION WITH CHRIST St. Paul's begins by repeating an objection he must often have heard from Jewish adversaries (cp: Romans 3:8), and suggested here by Romans 5:20 -'Does not t...
YIELD] RV 'present.' INSTRUMENTS] RM 'weapons.'...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 6 FREEDOM FROM *SIN 6:1-23 DEAD TO *SIN, ALIVE IN *CHRIST 6:1-14 V1 God’s *grace increased because *sin increased. Bu...
(12-14) Practical and hortatory consequence. Therefore expel sin, and refuse to obey its evil promptings. Keep your bodies pure and clean. Let them no longer be weapons in the hands of wickedness; let...
INSTRUMENTS. — Rather, as margin, _arms,_ or _weapons_ which sin is to wield. The same military metaphor is kept up in Romans 6:23, “the wages of sin” (your pay as soldiers of sin) “is death.”...
CHAPTER 14 JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS Romans 6:1 IN a certain sense, St. Paul has done now with the exposition of Justification. He has brought us on, from his denunciation of human sin, and his det...
In the fifth chapter, Paul has concluded his exposition of the “righteousness of God” which is revealed in the Gospel. But the exposition leaves something to be desired something hinted at in Romans 3...
“SIN SHALL NOT HAVE DOMINION” Romans 6:12 Standing with Christ on the resurrection side of death, we must present our whole being to God for His use. We have left forever behind, nailed to the Cross,...
The apostle declared, "We died to sin," that is, we were set free from our relationship to sin. On that basis he asked his question, How can we live in that to which we have died? Taking baptism as an...
Neither (p) yield ye your (q) members [as] (r) instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of right...
After speaking of the body in general, the apostle in Romans 6:13 a mentions the _members_ in particular. Philippi, who, with Calvin, has understood the body in Romans 6:12, not of the body properly s...
THIRTEENTH PASSAGE (6:1-14). SANCTIFICATION IN CHRIST DEAD AND RISEN. The apostle introduces this subject by an _objection_ which he makes to his own teaching, Romans 6:1; he gives it a _summary answe...
“ _Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey its lusts.Neither yield ye your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that h...
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. (13) Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto G...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
_A LIVING SACRIFICE_ ‘Yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead.’ Romans 6:13 As it is the living ‘self,’ ‘which after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of...
13._Nor present your members_, _etc. _When once sin has obtained dominion in our soul, all our faculties are continually applied to its service. He therefore describes here the reign of sin by what fo...
The character of this new life, into which the resurrection of Christ has brought us, is presented here in a striking way. Christ had perfectly glorified God in dying; also even in dying was He the So...
NEITHER YIELD YE YOUR MEMBERS,.... The apostle more fully explains what he means by obeying sin in the lusts thereof; a presenting, or making use of the "members, as instruments of unrighteousness unt...
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 unt...
_Let not sin_ Any sinful disposition or inclination; _therefore_ Since you are regenerate and spiritually alive; _reign in your mortal body _ That is, reign in your soul while it dwells in your body....
NEITHER YIELD YE YOUR MEMBERS; let not any of your faculties or powers by employed in the service or used as the instruments of sin. YOURSELVES; body and soul with all your powers employ in the servi...
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 GO...
The reign of sin definitely closed:...
A CHANGE OF MASTERS With the headship of Christ established for the believer - a headship which has to do with new life in contrast to the old life inherited from Adam, and grace reigning where sin ha...
ROMANS CHAPTER 6 1. Subject of this chapter a. NOT: baptism - mentioned 3 times b. IS: death - spiritual death c. Some form of the word "dead" is found 18 times d. Verses - 2, 3, 4 (2 times), 5,...
INSTRUMENTS: _ Gr._ arms, or weapons...
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. NOTE: The b...
11-15 The strongest motives against sin, and to enforce holiness, are here stated. Being made free from the reign of sin, alive unto God, and having the prospect of eternal life, it becomes believers...
He fitly compares our bodily members to tools that artificers work, or weapons that soldiers fight withal; for as those, so these, may be used well or ill: e.g. With the hand one man giveth an alms, a...
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....
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III usque ad illud: "Neque exhibete membra vestra, arma injustitiae peccato."[124] Five Books in Reply to Marcion Is seeking to regain the flesh's limbs,[330]...
Romans 6:13 not G3366 present G3936 (G5720) your G5216 members G3196 instruments G3696 unrighteousness G93 sin G266 but...
CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN FREED FROM THE TYRANNY OF SIN BY DYING WITH CHRIST AND RISING WITH HIM AND ARE THEREFORE TO TRIUMPHANTLY SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY OF BEING SO FREED FROM SIN (6:1-23). Having ended th...
REIGNING IN LIFE THROUGH CHRIST BY DYING WITH CHRIST, AND RISING WITH HIM (6:1-14). The question is asked in Romans 6:1, ‘What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?'. Thi...
‘Nor go on presenting your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.' So we ar...
Romans 6:13. NOR RENDER. ‘Nor' = ‘and especially not.' ‘Render' (in chap. Romans 12:1, ‘present') is preferable to ‘yield,' since the latter conveys the idea of previous resistance; the thought is of...
2. _Christians are Dead to Sin_, _and Dedicated to God._ The exhortation of Romans 6:11 is expanded in Romans 6:12-14; the negative part (‘dead unto sin') in Romans 6:12-13 a; the positive part (‘aliv...
3. MORAL RESULTS OF JUSTIFICATION; THOSE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH LIVE A NEW LIFE IN THE SPIRIT. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation; through it the will is affected, and thus is accomplished _mo...
NEITHER PRESENT (μηδε παριστανετε). Present active imperative in prohibition of παριστανω, late form of παριστημ, to place beside. Stop presenting your members or do not have the habit of doing so,...
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS Righteousness. (Romans 6:13); (Romans 6:16); (Romans 6:18); (Romans 6:19); ...
Romans 6:11 On Realising the Ideal. I. What is the theory of the Christian's condition? As just explained by the Apostle, it is this: The Christian is a man who, like his Master, is already dead to a...
Romans 6:1. _What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?_ If the sinfulness of man has really given an opportunity for the display of divine mercy, then the devil's logic...
Paul finishes the last chapter by saying, «That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.» «What shall we say, then?»...
Romans 6:1. _What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?_ This seems to be a very plausible temptation, it is one which frequently came in the apostle's way, and therefor...
Romans 6:1 _What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?_ The fifth chapter ends up in this way, that «where sin abounded, etc… Jesus Christ our Lord.» Then he goes on t...
CONTENTS: Deliverance from the power of indwelling sin by counting the old life dead, and yielding to the new life. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: It is an abuse of the grace of God in Ch...
Romans 6:1. _Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?_ The apostle having said, that as sin had abounded by the entrance of the law, so grace had much more abounded by the proclamation of the...
ANY PART OF YOURSELVES. The New Testament teaches a _holistic_ view of man (1 Thessalonians 5:23). Greek thought viewed man as a _soul_ imprisoned in a _body of flesh._ The New Testament views man as...
_Neither yield ye yourselves as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God._ YIELDING Yielding is an image carried over from the world of matter into the world of mind. I...
_Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus._ DEATH A DUTY The Bible speaks of three kinds of deaths. 1. That which is a necessary event--the de...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 6:12 Tension occurs here between what God has already accomplished and his people’s responsibility to obey. They are still tempted by desires to sin and must not let those desire...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 6:1 The law does not and cannot conquer sin, but the grace given to followers of Christ triumphs over sin and death. ⇐...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 6:12.—Sin works bodily desires as the utterances of itself, obedience to which gives it its domain in the body (Wordsworth). Sin personified as a sort of rival sovereign or de...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 8:1 (7) _Moral results to true believers of the revelation to them of the righteousness of God. _The _righteousness of God_ having been announced as revealed in the gospel (Romans 1...
What shall we say then? (Romans 6:1) If where sin abounds, grace does much more abound, Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? (Romans 6:1) No. Let's let God reveal how much grace there i...
1 Corinthians 6:15; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 John 1:9;...
Yield [π α ρ ι σ τ α ν ε τ ε]. Put at the service of; render. Rev., present. Compare Luke 2:22; Acts 9:41; Romans 12:1. See on Acts 1:3. Members [μ ε λ η]. Physical; though some in
SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN? Romans 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Grace never gives a margin to sin. There are some who go so far as to use "salvation by Grace" as an excuse for laxity in their morals; they...
As if the apostle had said, "Sin, which has such. kingly and commanding power, will be calling upon you to give up the members of your bodies, and the faculties of your souls, as instruments or weapon...