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Instead, give yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life, and surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/romans/6-13.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/romans/6-13.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/romans/6-13.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/romans/1.htm">Romans</a> > <a href="/gntd/romans/6.htm">Chapter 6</a> > Verse 13</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../romans/6-12.htm" title="Romans 6:12">◄</a> Romans 6:13 <a href="../romans/6-14.htm" title="Romans 6:14">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/romans/6.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/romans/6.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Nor must you surrender any part of yourselves to sin to be used for wicked purposes. Instead, give yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life, and surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/romans/6.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/romans/6.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />or let any part of it become a slave of evil. Give yourselves to God, as people who have been raised from death to life. Make every part of your body a slave that pleases God. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/romans/6.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />And do not present the parts of your bodies to sin as weapons for wickedness, but present yourselves to God as raised from the dead to life and the parts of your bodies to God as weapons for righteousness.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/romans/6.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />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.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">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.</p><p class="hdg">Neither.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/6-16.htm">Romans 6:16,19</a> Know you not that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death or of obedience unto justice. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/7-5.htm">Romans 7:5,23</a> For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/6-15.htm">1 Corinthians 6:15</a> Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid!</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../colossians/3-5.htm">Colossians 3:5</a> Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/3-5.htm">James 3:5,6</a> Even so the tongue is indeed a little member and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/4-1.htm">James 4:1</a> From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members?</p><p class="hdg">instruments.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/10-4.htm">2 Corinthians 10:4</a> For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty to God, unto the pulling down of fortifications, destroying counsels,</p><p class="hdg">unrighteousness.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/1-29.htm">Romans 1:29</a> Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers,</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/2-8.htm">Romans 2:8,9</a> But to them that are contentious and who obey not the truth but give credit to iniquity, wrath and indignation. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../deuteronomy/25-16.htm">Deuteronomy 25:16</a> For the Lord thy God abhorreth him that doth these things, and he hateth all injustice.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/3-10.htm">Isaiah 3:10,11</a> Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of his doings. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/55-7.htm">Isaiah 55:7</a> Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/18-4.htm">Ezekiel 18:4</a> Behold all souls are mine: as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, the same shall die.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/6-9.htm">1 Corinthians 6:9</a> Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: Neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_thessalonians/2-12.htm">2 Thessalonians 2:12</a> But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of God, for that God hath chosen you firstfruits unto salvation, in sanctification of the spirit and faith of the truth:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_peter/2-13.htm">2 Peter 2:13-15</a> Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, rioting in their feasts with you: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/1-9.htm">1 John 1:9</a> If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.</p><p class="hdg">but yield.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/12-1.htm">Romans 12:1</a> I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/30-8.htm">2 Chronicles 30:8</a> Harden not your necks, as your fathers did: yield yourselves to the Lord, and come to his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified forever: serve the Lord the God of your fathers, and the wrath of his indignation shall be turned away from you.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../daniel/3-28.htm">Daniel 3:28</a> For thou hast executed true judgments in all the things that thou hast brought upon us, and upon Jerusalem, the holy city of our fathers: for according to truth and judgment, thou hast brought all these things upon us for our sins.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/6-20.htm">1 Corinthians 6:20</a> For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/8-5.htm">2 Corinthians 8:5</a> And not as we hoped: but they gave their own selves, first to the Lord, then to us by the will of God;</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../philippians/1-20.htm">Philippians 1:20</a> According to my expectation and hope; that in nothing I shall be confounded: but with all confidence, as always, so now also, shall Christ be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death.</p><p class="hdg">alive.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../romans/6-11.htm">Romans 6:11</a> So do you also reckon that you are dead to sin, but alive unto God, in Christ Jesus our Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../luke/15-24.htm">Luke 15:24,32</a> Because this my son was dead and is come to life again, was lost and is found. And they began to be merry. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../john/5-24.htm">John 5:24</a> Amen, amen, I say unto you that he who heareth my word and believeth him that sent me hath life everlasting: and cometh not into judgment, but is passed from death to life.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/5-15.htm">2 Corinthians 5:15</a> And Christ died for all: that they also who live may not now live to themselves, but unto him who died for them and rose again.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/2-5.htm">Ephesians 2:5</a> Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together in Christ (by whose grace you are saved)</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ephesians/5-14.htm">Ephesians 5:14</a> Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../colossians/2-13.htm">Colossians 2:13</a> And you, when you were dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he hath quickened together with him, forgiving you all offences:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/2-24.htm">1 Peter 2:24</a> Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_peter/4-2.htm">1 Peter 4:2</a> That now he may live the rest of his time in the flesh, not after the desires of men but according to the will of God.</p><p class="hdg">and your.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/37-30.htm">Psalm 37:30</a> The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom: and his tongue shall speak judgment.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/12-18.htm">Proverbs 12:18</a> There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/3-5.htm">James 3:5,6</a> Even so the tongue is indeed a little member and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/romans/6.htm">Dead to Sin, Alive to God</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">12</span>Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, so as to obey the lusts thereof. <span class="reftext">13</span><span class="highl">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.</span> <span class="reftext">14</span>For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/6-16.htm">Romans 6:16</a></span><br />Know you not that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether it be of sin unto death or of obedience unto justice.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/6-19.htm">Romans 6:19</a></span><br />I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity: so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/7-5.htm">Romans 7:5</a></span><br />For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members, to bring forth fruit unto death.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../romans/12-1.htm">Romans 12:1</a></span><br />I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/5-14.htm">2 Corinthians 5:14</a></span><br />For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../colossians/3-5.htm">Colossians 3:5</a></span><br />Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_timothy/2-15.htm">2 Timothy 2:15</a></span><br />Carefully study to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_peter/2-24.htm">1 Peter 2:24</a></span><br />Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to 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