1 Chronicles 29:24

29:24 All the officers and warriors, as well as all of King David’s sons, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon. ¹ 

Ezra 10:19

10:19 (They gave their word ²  to send away their wives; their guilt offering was a ram from the flock for their guilt.)

Psalms 68:31

68:31 They come with red cloth ³  from Egypt,

Ethiopia ⁴  voluntarily offers tribute ⁵  to God.

Romans 6:13-19

6:13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments ⁶  to be used for unrighteousness, ⁷  but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments ⁸  to be used for righteousness. 6:14 For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness

6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not! 6:16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves ⁹  as obedient slaves, ¹⁰  you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness? ¹¹  6:17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed ¹²  from the heart that pattern ¹³  of teaching you were entrusted to, 6:18 and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. 6:19 (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) ¹⁴  For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

¹ tn Heb “placed a hand under Solomon the king.”

² tn Heb “hand.”

³ tn This noun, which occurs only here in the OT, apparently means “red cloth” or “bronze articles” (see HALOT 362 s.v. חַשְׁמַן; cf. NEB “tribute”). Traditionally the word has been taken to refer to “nobles” (see BDB 365 s.v. חַשְׁמַן; cf. NIV “envoys”). Another option would be to emend the text to הַשְׁמַנִּים (hashmannim, “the robust ones,” i.e., leaders).

⁴ tn Heb “Cush.”

⁵ tn Heb “causes its hands to run,” which must mean “quickly stretches out its hands” (to present tribute).

⁶ tn Or “weapons, tools.”

⁷ tn Or “wickedness, injustice.”

⁸ tn Or “weapons, tools.”

⁹ tn Grk “to whom you present yourselves.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “as slaves for obedience.” See the note on the word “slave” in 1:1.

¹¹ tn Grk “either of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness.”

¹² tn Grk “you were slaves of sin but you obeyed.”

¹³ tn Or “type, form.”

¹⁴ tn Or “because of your natural limitations” (NRSV).