Rom 6:19 | HCSB | STEP | I am using a human analogy because of the weakness of your flesh . For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to moral impurity , and to greater and greater lawlessness , so now offer them as slaves to righteousness , which results in sanctification .

‏ Romans 6:19

19 I am using a human analogy ^{▼▼Lit I speak humanly; Paul is personifying sin and righteousness as slave masters.
,} ^b because of the weakness of your flesh. ^{▼▼Or your human nature} For just as you offered the parts ^{▼▼Or members} of yourselves as slaves to moral impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in ^{▼▼saint(s)/sanctification/sanctify/sanctified: The work of the Holy Spirit that separates believers in Jesus from the world; at the time of saving faith in Jesus, the believer is made a saint; therefore, all believers are saints. The believer participates with the Spirit in a process of transformation that continues until glorification. The goal of sanctification is progressive conformity to the image of Jesus Christ.}sanctification.