Romans 6:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Rom 3:5 : 5 But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry (as men may say)?
  • Rom 6:13 : 13 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.
  • Gal 3:15 : 15 Brothers, as men would say, even a man's agreement, when it has been made certain, may not be put on one side, or have additions made to it.
  • 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
  • 1 Cor 9:8 : 8 Am I talking as a man? does not the law say the same?
  • Eph 2:2-3 : 2 In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God; 3 Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.
  • Col 3:5-7 : 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; 6 Because of which the wrath of God comes on those who go against his orders; 7 Among whom you were living in the past, when you did such things.
  • 2 Tim 2:16-17 : 16 But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil, 17 And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus;
  • Heb 4:15 : 15 For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin.
  • Heb 12:15 : 15 Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;
  • 1 Pet 4:2-4 : 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. 3 Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images; 4 And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:
  • Rom 6:16-17 : 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. 17 But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;
  • Rom 8:26 : 26 And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;
  • Rom 15:1 : 1 We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.
  • 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?
  • 1 Cor 15:32-33 : 32 If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end. 33 Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.

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    11 Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.

    12 For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

    13 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.

    14 For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

  • Rom 6:20-23
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    20 When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.

    21 What fruit had you at that time in the things which are now a shame to you? for the end of such things is death.

    22 But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

    23 For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.

  • Rom 6:16-18
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    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.

    17 But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;

    18 And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.

  • Rom 6:6-7
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    6 Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.

    7 Because he who is dead is free from sin.

  • Rom 1:24
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    24 For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

  • Rom 7:5-6
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    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.

    6 But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

  • 1 Cor 6:18-20
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    18 Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

    19 Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

    20 For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11 And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

  • 1 Cor 6:15
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    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.

  • Rom 12:1
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    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.

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    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 4:1-2
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    1 So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin;

    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.

  • Rom 8:12-13
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    12 So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:

    13 For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.

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    19 Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

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    14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.

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    19 Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

  • 2 Cor 7:1
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    1 Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

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    14 Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

    15 But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy;

    16 Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.

  • 2 Tim 2:21
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    21 If a man makes himself clean from these, he will be a vessel for honour, made holy, ready for the master's use, ready for every good work.

  • Gal 5:19
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    19 Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,

  • Eph 4:22
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    22 That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;

  • Gal 6:8
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    8 Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16 As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;

  • Gal 5:13
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    13 Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

  • Rom 7:14
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    14 For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

  • Rom 7:23
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    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.

  • Rom 7:17
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    17 So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.

  • Gal 5:16
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    16 But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.

  • Col 1:22
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    22 In the body of his flesh through death, so that you might be holy and without sin and free from all evil before him:

  • Eph 6:7
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    7 Doing your work readily, as to the Lord, and not to men:

  • 1 Cor 6:13
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    13 Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

  • Rom 8:5
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    5 For those who are living in the way of the flesh give their minds to the things of the flesh, but those who go in the way of the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 7:23
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    23 It is the Lord who has made payment for you: be not servants of men.