Romans 6:13 (WEB)
Also, do not present 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 to God.
Fathers and councils · 19
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield yourselves to God, as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.”” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 12, 13, etc.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…that he might enter into their concealments; I pray thee, when the Apostle saith, “Neither yield ye your members instruments of unrighteousness unto sin;” and therefore neither hands, nor members of generation, nor other members, can it be right to yield unto flagitious deeds with intent that we may be able to…” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 13
Read the whole comment“For God’s tabernacle on earth is the faithful; I admire in them the obedience of even their bodily members: that in them “Sin does not reign so that they should obey its lusts; neither do they yield their members instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but unto the living God in good works.”” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 12, 13.
Read the whole comment“…members instruments of iniquity unto sin, but yield themselves to God, as though from the dead living, and their members instruments of righteousness to God?” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 12, 13.
Read the whole comment“…for thus, according to the precept of the Apostle, sin reigneth not in our mortal body, nor do we yield our members as weapons of unrighteousness unto sin.” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 12, 13
Read the whole comment“For ye are not under the law, but under Grace.”” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 12, 13, 14
Read the whole comment“Then sin will reign in the mortal body of man to obey its desires; then will it yield its members weapons of unrighteousness unto sin: and the last state of that man shall be worse than the former.” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 12, 13
Read the whole comment“And so the body of sin is destroyed through such a cross, that now we should not yield our members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin.” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 6, 13
Read the whole comment“But if that consent is satisfied by the pleasure of thought alone, but the members are so restrained by the authority of higher counsel that they are not yielded as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; this, I think, is to be considered as if the woman alone should have eaten the forbidden food.” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 13
Read the whole comment“Our body, too, as a sacrifice when we chasten it by temperance, if we do so as we ought, for God’s sake, that we may not yield our members instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but instruments of righteousness unto God.” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 13.
Read the whole comment“…the punishment of sin, does not reign in our mortal body to obey the lusts of it, and when we no longer yield our members as instruments of unrighteousness, then the soul is converted from its own evil and selfish desires, and, God possessing it, it possesses itself in peace even in this life, and afterwards, with…” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 12, 13.
Read the whole comment“…moved to perpetrate any wickedness, if it be curbed and if it obey the word of the apostle, “Yield not your members instruments of unrighteousness unto sin,” it is turned towards the mind and subdued and conquered by it, so that reason rules over it as a subject.” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 13.
Read the whole comment“But if with the flesh thou servest the law of sin, do as the apostle himself says: “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lust thereof: neither yield ye your members as weapons of unrighteousness unto sin.”” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 12, 13.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…you forgiveness of your former trespasses; may He plant you into His Church, and enlist you in His own service, and put on you the armour of righteousness: may He fill you with the heavenly things of the New Covenant, and give you the seal of the Holy Spirit indelible throughout all ages, in Christ Jesus Our…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 7; Rom. vi. 13.
Read the whole comment“Romans vi. 3–14” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“…ye yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead”—not simply alive, but as alive from the dead—“and your members as instruments of righteousness.”” — editor's note: Vers. 12, 13.
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Gregory of Nyssa
- Gregory of Nyssa, On Virginity On Virginity.12On Virginity
“…should all rejoice in the Lord when they all look towards the Beautiful and the Good, and do everything for the glory of God, no longer instruments of sin.” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 13.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…footsteps directed in a godly fashion so that they should not well-nigh slip, nor slip at all; before all my members had become instruments of righteousness, and all mortality had been put off, and swallowed up of life, and had yielded to the Spirit?” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 13.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Quoniam veins homo nosier simul est crucifixus, ut destruatur corpus peccati,” usque ad illud: “Neque exhibete membra vestra, arma injustitiæ peccato.”” — editor's note: Rom. vi. 13.
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Cross-references · 44
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.12.
Cited together in The City of God XV.7.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 8.
Cited together in The City of God X.5.
Cited together in The City of God X.5.
Cited together in The City of God X.5.
Cited together in The City of God X.5.
Cited together in The City of God X.5.
Cited together in The City of God X.5.
Cited together in The City of God XV.6.
Cited together in The City of God XV.6.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.14.
Cited together in The City of God XV.6.
Cited together in The City of God XV.7.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.14.
Cited together in The City of God XV.6.
Cited together in The City of God XV.6.
Cited together in The City of God XV.6.
Cited together in The City of God XV.6.
Cited together in The City of God XV.7.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.12.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.12.
Cited together in The City of God XV.7 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XV.7.
Cited together in The City of God XV.7.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.14.
Cited together in The City of God X.5.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.12.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.12.
Cited together in The City of God X.5.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 31.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 4.
Cited together in The City of God XV.6.
Cited together in The City of God XV.6.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.14.
Cited together in Against Heresies V.14.
Cited together in On Virginity On Virginity.12.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XII.12.