Romans 2:5

2:5 But because of your stubbornness ¹  and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourselves in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed! ² 

Romans 6:13

6:13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments ³  to be used for unrighteousness, ⁴  but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments ⁵  to be used for righteousness.

Romans 6:16

6:16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves ⁶  as obedient slaves, ⁷  you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness? ⁸ 

Romans 15:14

Paul’s Motivation for Writing the Letter

15:14 But I myself am fully convinced about you, my brothers and sisters, ⁹  that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

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¹ tn Grk “hardness.” Concerning this imagery, see Jer 4:4; Ezek 3:7; 1 En. 16:3.

² tn Grk “in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.”

³ tn Or “weapons, tools.”

⁴ tn Or “wickedness, injustice.”

⁵ tn Or “weapons, tools.”

⁶ tn Grk “to whom you present yourselves.”

⁷ tn Grk “as slaves for obedience.” See the note on the word “slave” in 1:1.

⁸ tn Grk “either of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness.”

⁹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.