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11 Even so consider yourselves also dead to sin and your relation to it broken, but alive to God [living in unbroken fellowship with Him] in Christ Jesus.

12 Let not sin therefore rule as king in your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies, to make you yield to its cravings and be subject to its lusts and evil passions.

13 Do not continue offering or yielding your bodily members [and [a]faculties] to sin as instruments (tools) of wickedness. But offer and yield yourselves to God as though you have been raised from the dead to [perpetual] life, and your bodily members [and [b]faculties] to God, presenting them as implements of righteousness.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 6:13 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies: Greek mele—“Physical; though some commentators interpret it to include the mental faculties as well.”
  2. Romans 6:13 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies: Greek mele—“Physical; though some commentators interpret it to include the mental faculties as well.”

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