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Paul continues to use slavery as a metaphor for obedience and disobedience to God.
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## I speak like a man ##
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Paul is describing "sin" and "obedience" as "slavery." AT: "I am speaking about slavery to describe sin and obedience"
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## because of the weakness of your flesh ##
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Often Paul uses the word "flesh" as the opposite of "spirit." AT: "because you do not fully understand spiritual things"
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## presented your body parts as slaves to uncleanness and to evil ##
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Here, "body parts" refers to the whole person. AT: "offered yourselves as slaves to everything that is evil and not pleasing to God" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
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## present your body parts as slaves to righteousness for sanctification ##
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AT: "offer yourselves as slaves to what right before God so that he might set you apart and give you the power to serve him"
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## What fruit then did you have at that time of the things of which you are now ashamed? ##
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Paul is using a question to emphasize that sinning results in nothing good. AT: "You gained nothing by doing those things that now cause you shame." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]]) |