Romans 6:19

American Standard Version (1901)

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members [as] servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members [as] servants to righteousness unto sanctification.

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  • Rom 3:5 : 5 But if our righteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)
  • Rom 6:13 : 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.
  • Gal 3:15 : 15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man's covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto.
  • 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
  • 1 Cor 9:8 : 8 Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same?
  • Eph 2:2-3 : 2 wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience; 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--
  • Col 3:5-7 : 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; 6 for which things' sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience: 7 wherein ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things;
  • 2 Tim 2:16-17 : 16 But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness, 17 and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: or whom is Hymenaeus an Philetus;
  • Heb 4:15 : 15 For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.
  • Heb 12:15 : 15 looking carefully lest [there be] any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby the many be defiled;
  • 1 Pet 4:2-4 : 2 that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 3 For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries: 4 wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you] :
  • Rom 6:16-17 : 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves [as] servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;
  • Rom 8:26 : 26 And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity: for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for [us] with groanings which cannot be uttered;
  • Rom 15:1 : 1 Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
  • 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
  • 1 Cor 15:32-33 : 32 If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. 33 Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.

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  • Rom 6:11-14
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    11Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.

    12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

    13neither 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.

    14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.

  • Rom 6:20-23
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    20For when ye were servants of sin, ye were free in regard of righteousness.

    21What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

    22But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.

    23For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Rom 6:16-18
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    16Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves [as] servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

    17But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;

    18and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.

  • Rom 6:6-7
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    6knowing this, that our old man was crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;

    7for he that hath died is justified from sin.

  • 24Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:

  • Rom 7:5-6
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.

    6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

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    18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

    19Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;

    20for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

  • 11And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

  • 15Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.

  • 1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your spiritual service.

  • 5Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

  • 1 Pet 4:1-2
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    1Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

    2that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

  • Rom 8:12-13
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    12So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh:

    13for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

  • 5Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

  • 19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.

  • 14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof] .

  • 19who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

  • 1Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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    14as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in [the time of] your ignorance:

    15but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living;

    16because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.

  • 21If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, meet for the master's use, prepared unto every good work.

  • 19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these] : fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

  • 22that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

  • 8For he that soweth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth unto the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap eternal life.

  • 16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

  • 13For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only [use] not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

  • 14For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

  • 23but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members.

  • 17So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me.

  • 16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

  • 22yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:

  • 7with good will doing service, as unto the Lord, and not unto men:

  • 13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

  • 5For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

  • 23Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.