^19 (A)I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For ^(B)just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members ^(C)as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

³ In the same way we also, when we were children, ^(A)were enslaved to the elementary principles^[a] of the world.

¹⁵ and deliver all those who ^(A)through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.