Romans 6:13

6:13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.

Romans 7:5

7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

Romans 7:23

7:23 But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

James 4:1

Passions and Pride

4:1 Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?


tn Or “weapons, tools.”

tn Or “wickedness, injustice.”

tn Or “weapons, tools.”

tn That is, before we were in Christ.

tn Or “sinful passions.”

tn Grk “our members”; the words “of our body” have been supplied to clarify the meaning.

tn The word “where” is repeated in Greek for emphasis.

tn Grk “from here.”

tn Grk “in your members [i.e., parts of the body].”