“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.”
I am using an example from everyday life because of the limitations of your human nature. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness. — Paul acknowledges the slavery metaphor's inadequacy (διὰ τὴν ἀσθένειαν τῆς σαρκὸς ὑμῶν, "because of the weakness of your flesh"); yet it illustrates the transfer of allegiance. Escalation characterized sin's path (μᾶλλον, mallon, "ever-increasing"); righteousness progresses toward ἁγιασμός (hagiasmos, "sanctification/holiness"), the actual transformation of life.
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