| Geneva Study Bible Neither {p} yield ye your {q} members as {r} 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. (p) To sin, as to a Lord or tyrant. (q) Your mind and all the powers of it. (r) As instruments to commit wickedness with them. People's New Testament 6:13 Neither yield ye your members. The organs and appetites of the body must not be turned over to sin to use as instruments of unrighteousness. These have all been consecrated to God, by our rising to a new life, and we, as alive with the divine life, living to God, should use them all as instruments of righteousness unto God; i.e. as means of glorifying him and doing his will. Wesley's Notes 6:13 Neither present your members to sin - To corrupt nature, a mere tyrant. But to God - Your lawful King. King James Translators' Notes instruments: Gr. arms, or, weapons Scofield Reference Notes Margin unrighteousness Righteousness. Rom 6:13,16,18,19,20, See Scofield Note: "Rom 10:10". Margin sin Sin. See Scofield Note: "Rom 3:23". Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 13. Neither yield ye your members instruments of unrighteousness unto Sin, but yield yourselves-this is the great surrender. unto God as those that are alive from the dead, and-as the fruit of this. your members-till now prostituted to sin. instruments of righteousness unto God-But what if indwelling sin should prove too strong for us? The reply is: But it will not. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 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? | 
