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@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ Here, "body parts" refers to the whole person. AT: "offered yourselves as slaves
 
 Here "body parts" refers to the whole person. AT: "offer yourselves as slaves to what is right before God so that he might set you apart and give you the power to serve him" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])
 
-# you were free from righteousness.
+# you were free from righteousness
 
-"Free from righteousness" involves an idiom meaning they had the ability to do whatever they wanted (They were "free") because they had no thoughts about living a righteous life. AT: "you were able to live without thinking about righteousness.  (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])
+Here "free from righteousness" is a metaphor for living as though they had no obligation to do what is righteous.  AT: "you lived without thinking about righteousness" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
 
 # At that time, what fruit then did you have of the things of which you are now ashamed?