What does it mean to you as a christian to yield the members of your body as a weapon unto righteousness?

Question

Ty for posting today:)

In Him

sandy

Answer 1

We are the body of Christ. I keep that in mind in all I do.

Answer 2

It means that we must work for righteousness, basically, in whatever manner we can (i.e. if you're a police officer, writer, social worker....you use your respective gifts.)

Answer 3

What? Seriously get psychiatric help!

Answer 4

Weapon ?

Righteousness ?

Why is it you lot always forget about the "love",  the "understanding", and above all, the "humility" ?

Answer 5

Stay away from all temptation - not giving the devil a foothold.

Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Answer 6

Well, at least you admit to the violence of Christianity.

Answer 7

In the OT they would offer up sacrifices of large animals by cutting the body into pieces and placing them on the altar. As a Christian, we say things like:

Lord, I give these eyes to you. Like David...

Psalms 101:3  I will set nothing wicked before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; It shall not cling to me.

Like Job...

Job 31:1  "I have made a covenant with my eyes; Why then should I look upon a young woman?

I give these hands to You...

Ephesians 4:28  Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.

I give my mouth to You

Ephesians 4:29  Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.

Romans 12:1  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.  2  And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Answer 8

this question makes no sense; you must be a liberal

Answer 9

Romans 6:13

And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Actually, the word is "hoplon" which could be weapons, but is more accurately translated as an implements or utensils or tools. Meaning to let my hands be the hands of Jesus to dry a tear or lift up a fallen brother.

To use as an instrument of unrighteousness would be what the cynics and gemmas describe.