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Neither 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.
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Weapons of War
Multiple commentators highlight that the Greek word for "instruments" (hopla) primarily means "weapons" or "arms." Paul is using a military metaphor: your body parts and mental faculties are weapons in a spiritual war. The core command is to stop using them in the service of sin and instead present them to God as "weapons of righteousness" to be used in His service.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Neither yield ye your members. Do not give up, devote, or employ your members, and so on. The word members here refers to the
Neither present (μηδε παριστανετε). Present active imperative in prohibition of παριστανω, late form of παριστημ, to place beside.…
19th Century
Anglican
Instruments.—Rather, as the margin indicates, arms, or weapons which sin is to wield. The same military metaphor…
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Baptist
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…
16th Century
Protestant
Nor present your members, etc. Once sin has obtained dominion in our soul, all our faculties are continually applied to its servi…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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 holiness, are stated here. Having been made free from the reign of sin, alive to God, and poss…
13th Century
Catholic
After showing that we should not remain in sin and that we have the capacity for this, the Apostle concludes with a moral exhortation.