“Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.”
Do not offer any part of yourself to sin as an instrument of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to God as instruments of righteousness. — Paristēmi ("present/offer") is the counterpart to baptismal surrender; the body's μέλη (melē, "members/limbs") are not morally neutral but must be enlisted actively for righteousness. The σκεῦος (skeuos, "instrument/vessel") language suggests the body is a tool redirected toward God through voluntary self-offering.
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