Romans 6:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μηδὲ παριστάνετε τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν ὅπλα ἀδικίας τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ: ἀλλὰ παραστήσατε ἑαυτοὺς τῷ Θεῷ, ὡς ἐκ νεκρῶν ζῶντας, καὶ τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν ὅπλα δικαιοσύνης τῷ Θεῷ.

Transliteration

Mēde paristanete ta melē hymōn hopla adikias tē hamartia: alla parastēsate heautous tō Theō, hōs ek nekrōn zōntas, kai ta melē hymōn hopla dikaiosynēs tō Theō.

Grammar Details

• *Mēde*: negative conjunction - and not/neither/nor
• *paristanete*: present active imperative, 2nd person plural - present/offer
• *ta melē*: accusative, neuter, plural - the members/parts
• *hymōn*: personal pronoun, genitive, 2nd person plural - your
• *hopla*: accusative, neuter, plural - instruments/weapons/tools
• *adikias*: genitive, feminine, singular - of unrighteousness
• *tē hamartia*: dative, feminine, singular - to sin
• *alla*: strong adversative conjunction - but
• *parastēsate*: aorist active imperative, 2nd person plural - present/offer
• *heautous*: reflexive pronoun, accusative, masculine, plural - yourselves
• *tō Theō*: dative, masculine, singular - to God
• *hōs*: comparative particle - as
• *ek nekrōn*: prepositional phrase, genitive, masculine, plural - from the dead
• *zōntas*: present active participle, accusative, masculine, plural - living
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *hopla dikaiosynēs*: instruments of righteousness

Word Meanings

• *paristanete*: present/offer/put at disposal
• *melē*: members/parts/limbs
• *hopla*: instruments/weapons/tools
• *adikias*: unrighteousness/injustice/wrongdoing
• *hamartia*: sin/error/missing the mark
• *parastēsate*: present/offer/yield
• *Theō*: God/deity
• *nekrōn*: dead ones/corpses
• *zōntas*: living/alive
• *dikaiosynēs*: righteousness/justice/righteousness that comes from God

Referenced Verses

• Rom 7:5 : 5 For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.
• Rom 12:1 : 1 For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.
• Col 3:5 : 5 Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;
• 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.
• Jas 3:5-6 : 5 Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.
• Rom 6:16 : 16 Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.
• Rom 6:19 : 19 I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.
• Rom 6:11 : 11 Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.
• 1 Pet 4:2 : 2 So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.
• Eph 2:5 : 5 Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),
• Eph 5:14 : 14 For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.
• Phil 1:20 : 20 In the measure of my strong hope and belief that in nothing will I be put to shame, but that without fear, as at all times, so now will Christ have glory in my body, by life or by death.
• Col 2:13 : 13 And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;
• 2 Thess 2:12 : 12 So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.
• Rom 7:23 : 23 But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.
• 2 Pet 2:13-15 : 13 For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy; 14 Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy; 15 Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;
• 1 John 1:9 : 9 If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.
• Jas 4:1 : 1 What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?
• Deut 25:16 : 16 For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.
• 2 Chr 30:8 : 8 Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.
• 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,
• 1 Cor 6:15 : 15 Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.
• 1 Cor 6:20 : 20 For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.
• 2 Cor 5:15 : 15 And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.
• 2 Cor 8:5 : 5 And going even farther than our hope, they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us after the purpose of God.
• 2 Cor 10:4 : 4 (For the arms with which we are fighting are not those of the flesh, but are strong before God for the destruction of high places);
• Prov 12:18 : 18 There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the tongue of the wise makes one well again.
• Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways. 11 Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.
• Isa 55:7 : 7 Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.
• Ezek 18:4 : 4 See, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so the soul of the son is mine: death will be the fate of the sinner's soul.
• Dan 3:28 : 28 Nebuchadnezzar made answer and said, Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who has sent his angel and kept his servants safe who had faith in him, and who put the king's word on one side and gave up their bodies to the fire, so that they might not be servants or worshippers of any other god but their God.
• Luke 15:24 : 24 For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.
• Luke 15:32 : 32 But it was right to be glad and to have a feast; for this your brother, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away and has come back.
• John 5:24 : 24 Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.
• Rom 1:29 : 29 Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;
• Rom 2:8-9 : 8 But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath, 9 Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;
• Ps 37:30 : 30 The mouth of the good man says words of wisdom; the talk of his tongue is of righteousness.