Romans 6:13

6:13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments ¹  to be used for unrighteousness, ²  but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments ³  to be used for righteousness.

Romans 7:5

7:5 For when we were in the flesh, ⁴  the sinful desires, ⁵  aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body ⁶  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 ⁷  do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, ⁸  from your passions that battle inside you? ⁹ 

[6:13]  ¹ tn Or “weapons, tools.”

[6:13]  ² tn Or “wickedness, injustice.”

[6:13]  ³ tn Or “weapons, tools.”

[7:5]  ⁴ tn That is, before we were in Christ.

[7:5]  ⁵ tn Or “sinful passions.”

[7:5]  ⁶ tn Grk “our members”; the words “of our body” have been supplied to clarify the meaning.

[4:1]  ⁷ tn The word “where” is repeated in Greek for emphasis.

[4:1]  ⁸ tn Grk “from here.”

[4:1]  ⁹ tn Grk “in your members [i.e., parts of the body].”