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18 And having been set free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will in thought, purpose, and action).

19 I am speaking in familiar human terms because of your natural limitations. For as you yielded your bodily members [and [a]faculties] as servants to impurity and ever increasing lawlessness, so now yield your bodily members [and [b]faculties] once for all as servants to righteousness (right being and doing) [which leads] to sanctification.

20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 6:19 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies: Greek mele—“Physical; though some commentators interpret it to include the mental faculties as well.”
  2. Romans 6:19 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies: Greek mele—“Physical; though some commentators interpret it to include the mental faculties as well.”

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