Romans 6:13

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 variedpowers for good or evil. See on Romans 6:6 (on "the body." Cp. Colossians 3:5).

instruments Lit., weapons. The word in classical Gr. has very various references, but N. T. usage makes it best here to keep the militaryreference. The will is regarded as at war, whether for or against holiness.

unto sin Connect these words with "yield;" q. d., "Do not put them as weapons into the hand of sin to use for unrighteousness." So below, "Put them into the hand of God as weapons to use for righteousness."

yourselves This word was not used in the previous clause, and here emphasizes the cordialallegiance resulting from justification.

as those that are alive, &c. Rather better, who were dead and are alive. The facts both of death and life are emphatic in the Gr. The reference is to acceptancein Him who "was delivered because of our offences and raised again because of our justification" (Romans 4:25). In Himthe believer has, as it were, suffered expiatory death and passed into "newness of life." This seems to be the reference proper to this context, rather than a reference to the spiritual death-stateof unrenewed man. (Ephesians 2:1.)

righteousness Here, of course, in the sense of active good;not, as so often before, in that of "righteousness in the eye of the law."