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.
Neither yield, [ paristanete (G3936 ), or 'present'] ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto SIN: but yield ('present') yourselves. Observe how grandly the thought rises here. Not only does it rise from a negative exhortation in the first clause to a positive in the second, but it rises from the members in the one clause to our whole renewed selves in the other. Being alive now unto God from the dead, he bids us, instead of yielding the members of such to the obedience of their old Master, first yield our whole new selves
Unto GOD (as our new and rightful Master), as [those that are] alive from the dead - Do this in the capacity of men risen with Christ,
And (as the natural fruit of this) your members (until now prostituted to sin) [as] instruments (for the practice) of righteousness unto God. A significant transition also has been noticed here from one tense to another. In the first clause - "Neither yield ye your members instruments of unrighteousness" - the present tense is used х paristanete (G3936)], denoting the habitual practice of men in their old unregenerate state; in the next clause, "but yield yourselves unto God," it is the aorist х parasteesate (G3936)] - suggesting the one act for all, of self-surrender, which the renewed believer performs immediately on his passing from death to life, and to which he only sets his continuous seal in all his after-life.
But what if indwelling sin should prove too strong for us? The reply of the next verse is, But it will not.