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Neither present (μηδε παριστανετε). Present active imperative in prohibition of παριστανω, late form of παριστημ, to place beside.…

Neither yield ye your members. Do not give up, devote, or employ your members, and so on. The word members here refers to the

Instruments.—Rather, as the margin indicates, arms, or weapons which sin is to wield. The same military metaphor…

Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in yo…

In this section Paul uses the key word “count” or “reckon” (GK 3357; the same term used so often in ch. 4 in connection with righteousness). Reckon…

Nor present your members, etc. Once sin has obtained dominion in our soul, all our faculties are continually applied to its servi…

Neither yield you your members
The apostle more fully explains what he means by obeying sin in the lusts thereof; a …

The strongest motives against sin, and for promoting holine , are stated here. Having been made free from the reign of sin, alive to God, and po e …

After showing that we should not remain in sin and that we have the capacity for this, the Apostle concludes with a moral exhortation.
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A.T. Robertson
A.T.Robertson