Roma 6:5

6:5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection. ¹ 

Roma 6:13

6:13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments ²  to be used for unrighteousness, ³  but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments ⁴  to be used for righteousness.

Roma 6:16

6:16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves ⁵  as obedient slaves, ⁶  you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness? ⁷ 

Roma 6:19

6:19 (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) ⁸  For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

Roma 12:1

Consecration of the Believer’s Life

12:1 Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, ⁹  by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God ¹⁰  – which is your reasonable service.

[6:5]  ¹ tn Grk “we will certainly also of his resurrection.”

[6:13]  ² tn Or “weapons, tools.”

[6:13]  ³ tn Or “wickedness, injustice.”

[6:13]  ⁴ tn Or “weapons, tools.”

[6:16]  ⁵ tn Grk “to whom you present yourselves.”

[6:16]  ⁶ tn Grk “as slaves for obedience.” See the note on the word “slave” in 1:1.

[6:16]  ⁷ tn Grk “either of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness.”

[6:19]  ⁸ tn Or “because of your natural limitations” (NRSV).

[6:19]  sn Verse 19 forms something of a parenthetical comment in Paul’s argument.

[12:1]  ⁹ tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.

[12:1]  ¹⁰ tn The participle and two adjectives “alive, holy, and pleasing to God” are taken as predicates in relation to “sacrifice,” making the exhortation more emphatic. See ExSyn 618-19.

[12:1]  sn Taken as predicate adjectives, the terms alive, holy, and pleasing are showing how unusual is the sacrifice that believers can now offer, for OT sacrifices were dead. As has often been quipped about this text, “The problem with living sacrifices is that they keep crawling off the altar.”