Truth & Righteousness - Week 4: Saturday

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.

Commentary

Fr. Tadros Malaty
It is amazing that the Apostle (St. Paul) asks us to present ourselves to God ‘as being alive from the dead’ before asking us to present our members as instruments of righteousness to God. This indicates that our physical members will not be sanctified unless our whole being is sanctified; and unless we accept the resurrection to work actively in our hearts as well as in our minds and bodies.

Questions

• Where does the act of sin begin? In the mind or the body?

• What can be our first step towards righteousness?