Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts. And do not go
on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.
Romans 6:12-13
Paul’s teaching in the preceding verses was that believers are dead to the slavery of sin and alive to the cause of Christ through the Grace of God alone. These verses are essentially the
concluding statement. Simply put, believers can now prevent sin from ruling their lives.
Take care here; many Christians are misled into thinking they can now prevent sin from entering their lives. They cannot! Paul points this out without any reservation in Romans 7. Paul is not focused here on the cessation of sin in a believer but on the believer’s rest in what Christ has done. The emphasis here is that the believer’s ability to resist sin is a product of faith, not how they justify it.
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