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The same military metaphor is kept up in <a href="/romans/6-23.htm" title="For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.">Romans 6:23</a>, “the wages of sin” (your pay as soldiers of sin) “is death.”<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/romans/6.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>6:11-15 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 to be greatly concerned to advance thereto. But, as unholy lusts are not quite rooted out in this life, it must be the care of the Christian to resist their motions, earnestly striving, that, through Divine grace, they may not prevail in this mortal state. Let the thought that this state will soon be at an end, encourage the true Christian, as to the motions of lusts, which so often perplex and distress him. Let us present all our powers to God, as weapons or tools ready for the warfare, and work of righteousness, in his service. There is strength in the covenant of grace for us. Sin shall not have dominion. God's promises to us are more powerful and effectual for mortifying sin, than our promises to God. Sin may struggle in a real believer, and create him a great deal of trouble, but it shall not have dominion; it may vex him, but it shall not rule over him. Shall any take occasion from this encouraging doctrine to allow themselves in the practice of any sin? Far be such abominable thoughts, so contrary to the perfections of God, and the design of his gospel, so opposed to being under grace. What can be a stronger motive against sin than the love of Christ? Shall we sin against so much goodness, and such love?<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/romans/6.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>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 of what in <a href="/romans/6-12.htm">Romans 6:12</a> is included under the general term "body;" see <a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/7-5.htm">Romans 7:5</a>, <a href="/romans/7-23.htm">Romans 7:23</a>; <a href="/1_corinthians/6-15.htm">1 Corinthians 6:15</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/12-12.htm">1 Corinthians 12:12</a>, <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/12-18.htm">1 Corinthians 12:18</a>, <a href="/1_corinthians/12-20.htm">1 Corinthians 12:20</a>.<p>As instruments - This word ὁπλα hopla properly signifies "arms;" or implements of war; but it also denotes an instrument of any kind which we use for defense or aid. Here it means that we should not devote our members - our hands, tongue, etc., as if under the direction of sinful passions and corrupt desires, to accomplish purposes of iniquity. We should not make the members of our bodies the slaves of sin reigning within us.<p>Unto sin - In the service of sin; to work iniquity.<p>But yield yourselves ... - Give or devote yourselves to God.<p>That are alive - <a href="/romans/6-11.htm">Romans 6:11</a>.<p>And your members ... - Christians should devote every member of the body to God and to his service. Their tongue should be consecrated to his praise, and to the office of truth, and kindness, and benevolence; their hands should be employed in useful labor for him and his cause; their feet should be swift in his service, and should not go in the paths of iniquity; their eyes should contemplate his works to excite thanksgiving and praise; their ears should not be employed to listen to words of deceit, or songs of dangerous and licentious tendency, or to persuasion that would lead astray, but should be open to catch the voice of God as he utters his will in the Book of truth, or as he speaks in the gale, the zephyr, the rolling thunder, the ocean, or in the great events of his providence. He speaks to us every day, and we should hear him; he spreads his glories before us, and we should survey them to praise him; he commands, and our hands, and heart, and feet should obey. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/romans/6.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>13. Neither yield ye your members instruments of unrighteousness unto Sin, but yield yourselves—this is the great surrender.<p>unto God as those that are alive from the dead, and—as the fruit of this.<p>your members—till now prostituted to sin.<p>instruments of righteousness unto God—But what if indwelling sin should prove too strong for us? The reply is: But it will not.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/romans/6.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> 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, another stealeth; with the tongue one man blesseth, another curseth. By members here we are not only to understand the parts of the body, as the hands, eyes, ears, &c.; but also the faculties of the soul, as the understanding, will, affections, &c. These bear some proportion to the bodily members, as the understanding to the eye, &c. All of them must be employed by us as weapons to fight, not under the command of Satan for sin, but under the command of God for righteousness. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="bld">As those that are alive from the dead:</span> these words contain a reason why we should not serve sin and Satan, but bequeath and dedicate ourselves to the service of God, because we are endued with a spiritual life, after a spiritual death; or because we have received so great a benefit as to be raised in Christ from the death and power of sin. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/romans/6.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>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 unto sin": by their "members" he means the several powers and faculties of the soul, and so the Ethiopic version renders it, "your souls"; or the several parts of the body, or both; by "yielding", or presenting of them, is designed the employment of them in the service of sin, <p>as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: that is, as means of performing unrighteous actions, in obedience to sin, or the corruption of nature with its lusts: the word translated "instruments", signifies "arms" or "weapons": so the ancients (w) formerly reckoned weapons the members of soldiers; and here the apostle calls the members weapons, which he would not have the saints use in favour of sin, an enemy and a tyrant; for that would be unrighteous in itself, and injurious to God and themselves: says he, <p>but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead: that is, present themselves soul and body to God, give up and devote themselves to him, and to his service, and yield a cheerful obedience to him; considering themselves as under great obligation so to do, inasmuch as they are freed from condemnation and death, by the righteousness of Christ; and quickened, when dead in trespasses and sins, by his Spirit and grace; and therefore should yield <p>your members, their whole selves, <p>as instruments, or weapons <p>of righteousness unto God; by fighting against sin, revenging all disobedience, and fulfilling obedience to the commands of God: the same is here meant, as is by putting on "the armour of light" <a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/13-12.htm">Romans 13:12</a>, and wearing and making use of "the armour of righteousness, on the right hand and the left", <a href="/2_corinthians/6-7.htm">2 Corinthians 6:7</a>. <p>(w) Alexander ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 1. c. 12. p. 18. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/romans/6.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">Neither <span class="cverse3">{p}</span> yield ye your <span class="cverse3">{q}</span> members <i>as</i> <span class="cverse3">{r}</span> instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members <i>as</i> instruments of righteousness unto God.</span><p>(p) To sin, as to a Lord or tyrant.<p>(q) Your mind and all the powers of it.<p>(r) As instruments to commit wickedness with them.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/romans/6.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">13</span>. <span class="ital">your members</span>] <span class="bld">your limbs</span>; the bodily organs and their constitution. The words thus = “your body,” (see <a href="/romans/12-1.htm" title="I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.">Romans 12:1</a>,) only with the suggestion of its <span class="ital">varied</span> powers for good or evil. See on <a href="/romans/6-6.htm" title="Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin.">Romans 6:6</a> (on “the body.” Cp. <a href="/colossians/3-5.htm" title=" Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:">Colossians 3:5</a>).<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">instruments</span>] Lit., <span class="bld">weapons</span>. The word in classical Gr. has very various references, but N. T. usage makes it best here to keep the <span class="ital">military</span> reference. The will is regarded as <span class="ital">at war</span>, whether for or against holiness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">unto sin</span>] Connect these words with “<span class="ital">yield;</span>” 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.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">yourselves</span>] This word was not used in the previous clause, and here emphasizes the <span class="ital">cordial</span> allegiance resulting from justification.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">as those that are alive</span>, &c.] Rather better, <span class="bld">who were dead and are alive</span>. The facts both of death and life are emphatic in the Gr.—The reference is to <span class="ital">acceptance</span> in Him who “was delivered because of our offences and raised again because of our justification” (<a href="/romans/4-25.htm" title="Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.">Romans 4:25</a>). <span class="ital">In Him</span> the believer has, as it were, suffered expiatory death and passed into “newness of life.” This seems to be the reference <span class="ital">proper to this context</span>, rather than a reference to the <span class="ital">spiritual death-state</span> of unrenewed man. (<a href="/ephesians/2-1.htm" title="And you has he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;">Ephesians 2:1</a>.)<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="ital">righteousness</span>] Here, of course, in the sense of <span class="ital">active good;</span> not, as so often before, in that of “righteousness in the eye of the law.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/bengel/romans/6.htm">Bengel's Gnomen</a></div><a href="/romans/6-13.htm" title="Neither yield you your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin: but yield yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.">Romans 6:13</a>. <span class="greekheb">Μηδὲ παριστάνετε</span>) <span class="ital">neither yield ye</span>. The first aor. <span class="greekheb">παραστήσατε</span>, which occurs presently, has greater force than this present.—<span class="greekheb">τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν</span>· <span class="greekheb">ἑαυτοὺς καὶ τὰ μέλη</span>, <span class="ital">your members; yourselves and your members</span>) First, the character of the Christian is brought under consideration; secondly, His actions and duties. Man, who is dead in sin, could not, with propriety, be said to <span class="ital">yield</span> HIMSELF [Sistere seipsum, <span class="ital">to present himself</span>] <span class="ital">to sin:</span> but the man, who is alive, may yield [present] himself to God.—<span class="greekheb">ὄπλα</span>, <span class="ital">arms</span>) [<span class="ital">instruments</span>] a figurative expression, derived from war, as <span class="ital">wages</span>, <a href="/romans/6-23.htm" title="For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.">Romans 6:23</a>.—<span class="greekheb">ἀδικίας</span>, <span class="ital">of unrighteousness</span>) which is opposed to the righteous will of God.—<span class="greekheb">τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ</span>, <span class="ital">to sin</span>) Sin is here considered as a tyrant.—<span class="greekheb">παραστήσατε</span> [<span class="ital">yield</span>] <span class="ital">present</span>) as to a king.—<span class="greekheb">ἐκ νεκρῶν</span>, <span class="ital">from the dead</span>) The Christian is <span class="ital">alive from the dead</span>. He had been dead, he is now alive. Comp. <a href="/ephesians/5-14.htm" title="Why he said, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.">Ephesians 5:14</a>, <span class="ital">note</span>, <a href="/context/revelation/3-1.htm" title="And to the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things said he that has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know your works, that you have a name that you live, and are dead....">Revelation 3:1-3</a>. Sleep, too, in these passages, is the image of <span class="ital">death</span>.—<span class="greekheb">δικαιοσύνης</span>, <span class="ital">of righteousness</span>) The antithetic word is <span class="greekheb">ἀδικίας</span>, <span class="ital">of unrighteousness</span>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/romans/6.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 13.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God</span>. By our <span class="accented">members</span> seem to be meant, not merely the several parts of our bodily frame - eye. tongue, hand, foot, etc. - but generally all the parts or constituents of our present human nature, which sin may use as its instruments, but which ought to be devoted to God (cf. <a href="/colossians/3-5.htm">Colossians 3:5</a>). Many commentators would translate <span class="greek">ὅπλα</span> "weapons" rather than "instruments," on the ground that St. Paul usually uses the word in this sense (<a href="/romans/13-12.htm">Romans 13:12</a>; <a href="/2_corinthians/6-7.htm">2 Corinthians 6:7</a>; <a href="/2_corinthians/10-4.htm">2 Corinthians 10:4</a>; <a href="/ephesians/6-11.htm">Ephesians 6:11, 13</a>); and also that <span class="greek">ὀψώνια</span> in ver. 22, taken in the sense of the pay of a soldier (as in <a href="/luke/3-14.htm">Luke 3:14</a>; <a href="/1_corinthians/9-7.htm">1 Corinthians 9:7</a>), is supposed to imply that the apostle has had all along the idea of <span class="accented">warfare</span> in view. The second of these reasons really proves nothing. Whatever the meaning of <span class="greek">ὀψώνια</span> in ver. 23, it is too far removed from the passage before us to be taken in any connection with it. Neither is the first reason at all cogent. <span class="greek">Ὅπλα</span> bears the sense of <span class="accented">instruments</span> as well as of <span class="accented">weapons</span>, and may more suitably bear it here. When St. Paul elsewhere speaks of armour, it is the armour of <span class="accented">light</span>, or of <span class="accented">righteousness</span>, which we are told to <span class="accented">take up</span>, and to <span class="accented">put on, in</span> order to fight against our spiritual enemies. Such a conception is inapplicable to our own <span class="accented">members</span>, which we have already, which we may use either for good or evil, and which require the protection of heavenly armour rather than being themselves armour; and we certainly could not be told to take them up or put them on. We may, in the next place, observe that the two clauses of this verse are differently expressed in two respects. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="note_emph">(1)</span> It is our <span class="accented">members</span> only that we are forbidden to yield to sin; but <span class="accented">ourselves</span>, with our members, we are bidden to yield to God. For few of the persons addressed, if even any, could be supposed, deliberately and of choice, to offer their whole being to the service of sin as such; they were only liable to succumb to sin, in this or that way, through soliciting lusts. But the regenerate Christian offers and presents his whole serf to God, and desires to be his entirely. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="note_emph">(2)</span> In the first clause we find the present imperative, <span class="greek">παριστάνετε</span>; but in the second the aorist imperative, <span class="greek">παραστήσατε</span>. The distinction between the two tenses in the imperative is thus expressed in Matthiae's 'Greek Grammar:' "that the aorist designates an action passing by, and considered abstractedly in its completion, but the present a continued and frequently repeated action." Our giving ourselves to God is something done once for all; our yielding our members as instruments of sin is a succession of acts of yielding. Romans 6:13<a name="vws" id="vws"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/vws/romans/6.htm">Vincent's Word Studies</a></div>Yield (παριστάνετε)<p>Put at the service of; render. Rev., present. Compare <a href="/luke/2-22.htm">Luke 2:22</a>; <a href="/acts/9-41.htm">Acts 9:41</a>; <a href="/romans/12-1.htm">Romans 12:1</a>. See on <a href="/acts/1-3.htm">Acts 1:3</a>.<p>Members (μέλη)<p>Physical; though some include mental faculties. Compare <a href="http://biblehub.com/colossians/3-5.htm">Colossians 3:5</a>, where members is expounded by fornication, uncleanness, etc., the physical being a symbol of the moral, of which it is the instrument.<p>Instruments (ὅπλα)<p>The word is used from the earliest times of tools or instruments generally. In Homer of a ship's tackle, smith's tools, implements of war, and in the last sense more especially in later Greek. In the New Testament distinctly of instruments of war (<a href="/john/18-3.htm">John 18:3</a>; <a href="/2_corinthians/6-7.htm">2 Corinthians 6:7</a>; <a href="/2_corinthians/10-4.htm">2 Corinthians 10:4</a>). Here probably with the same meaning, the conception being that of sin and righteousness as respectively rulers of opposing sovereignties (compare reign, <a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/6-12.htm">Romans 6:12</a>, and have dominion, <a href="/romans/6-14.htm">Romans 6:14</a>), and enlisting men in their armies. Hence the exhortation is, do not offer your members as weapons with which the rule of unrighteousness may be maintained, but offer them to God in the service of righteousness.<p>Of unrighteousness (ἀδικίας)<p>See on <a href="/2_peter/2-13.htm">2 Peter 2:13</a>.<p>Yield (παραστήσατε)<p>Rev., present. The same word as before, but in a different tense. The present tense, be presenting, denotes the daily habit, the giving of the hand, the tongue, etc., to the service of sin as temptation appeals to each. Here the aorist, as in <a href="http://biblehub.com/romans/12-1.htm">Romans 12:1</a>, denotes an act of self-devotion once for all.<p>As those that are alive (ὡς ζῶντας)<p>The best texts read ὡσεί as if alive. This brings out more clearly the figurative character of the exhortation.<p>From the dead (ἐκ νεκρῶν)<p>Note the preposition out of. 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