Charles Spurgeon Commentary Romans 6:13

"neither present your members unto sin [as] instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God." — Romans 6:13 (ASV)

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin – neither eyes, nor ears, nor hands, nor feet, neither allow any of these to become the tools of sin, but yield yourselves unto God. He is ready to use you; lay all the powers of your nature out as tools for him to use.

Yield yourselves unto God as those that are alive from the dead. He is not the God of the dead; he cannot use the dead, but he is the God of the living. As you profess to have received a new life in Christ, yield up all the faculties of this new life to the living God, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Neither yield 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.

We do not, I think, make enough of the passive part of our religion. We are often focused on doing, and rightly so; the more active we can be, the better. Still, before the doing, there must come a yielding, because we remember who it is that works in us, both to will and to do of his own good pleasure. Our activities, after all, are not so much our own as we suppose, when they are right.

These are the activities of the divine life within us, of the Spirit of God himself working in us to the glory of the Father. One great point, therefore, is to yield ourselves up—our members—to be weapons in God's hands for fighting the spiritual war.