Study it in the app“and do not present your members as weapons of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as weapons of righteousness to God.”
Count yourselves dead to sin and alive to God: sin will no longer ruleTemptation
and do notμηδὲpresentπαριστάνετεyour membersτὰ μέλη ὑμῶνasweaponsὅπλαof unrighteousnessἀδικίαςto sin,τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳbutἀλλὰpresentπαραστήσατεyourselvesἑαυτοὺςto Godτῷ θεῷasὡσεὶthosealiveζῶνταςfromἐκthe dead,νεκρῶνandκαὶyour membersτὰ μέλη ὑμῶνasweaponsὅπλαof righteousnessδικαιοσύνηςto God.τῷ θεῷ
present
To set someone or something before God or another.
Where else “paristanete” appearsmember
A part of the body.
Where else “melē” appearsweapon
Weapon; also tool, instrument.
Where else “hopla” appearsunrighteousness
Injustice, unrighteousness.
Where else “adikias” appearssin
Doing what God does not want, and the guilt it leaves.
Where else “hamartiai” appearsGod
The Creator and Lord of all, the one God of Israel.
Where else “theōi” appearslike
Compares one thing with another that resembles it.
Where else “hōsei” appearslive
To have life in the body, or receive it again after dying.
Where else “zōntas” appearsdead
Someone who no longer has life, whose body has no breath left.
Where else “nekrōn” appearsrighteousness
Doing what is just, living as God wants.
Where else “dikaiosynēs” appears12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires;
13 · This verse (above)
14For sin will not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
1. What it says
What does Paul say is the pay of sin and the gift of God? (v. 23)
2. What it means
Paul asks whether we should continue in sin so that grace may increase, and answers no (vv. 1-2). How does he explain it?
3. How I live it
Paul invites us to offer ourselves to God (v. 13). What concrete step could you take this week to live by what you value?
