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Rom 6:19 — I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

I speak		Rom 3:5; 1Cr 9:8; 1Cr 15:32; Gal 3:15
because		Rom 8:26; Rom 15:1; Hbr 4:15
for as ye		Rom 6:13,17; 1Cr 6:11; Eph 2:2,3; Col 3:5-7; 1Pe 4:2-4
unto iniquity		Rom 6:16; 1Cr 5:6; 1Cr 15:33; 2Ti 2:16,17; Hbr 12:15
now yield		Rom 6:13
unto holiness		Rom 6:22

Correlating Passages

I speak

	Rom 3:5	But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? [Is] God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
	1Cr 9:8	Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?
	1Cr 15:32	If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.
	Gal 3:15	Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though [it be] but a man's covenant, yet [if it be] confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

because

	Rom 8:26	Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
	Rom 15:1	We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
	Hbr 4:15	For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as [we are, yet] without sin.

for as ye

	Rom 6:13	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.
	Rom 6:17	But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
	1Cr 6:11	And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
	Eph 2:2	Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
	Eph 2:3	Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
	Col 3:5	Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
	Col 3:6	For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
	Col 3:7	In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
	1Pe 4:2	That he no longer should live the rest of [his] time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
	1Pe 4:3	For the time past of [our] life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
	1Pe 4:4	Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you]:

unto iniquity

	Rom 6:16	Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
	1Cr 5:6	Your glorying [is] not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
	1Cr 15:33	Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
	2Ti 2:16	But shun profane [and] vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
	2Ti 2:17	And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
	Hbr 12:15	Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be defiled;

now yield

Rom 6:13

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.

unto holiness

Rom 6:22

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

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Scott, Thomas. "Romans 6:19," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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