I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
I speak after the manner of men - descending, for illustration, to the level of common affairs,
Because of the infirmity of your flesh - the weakness of your spiritual apprehension:
For as ye have yielded - `as ye yielded,' the thing being viewed as now past,
Your members servants to UNCLEANNESS and to INIQUITY unto (the practice of) iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to RIGHTEOUSNESS unto holiness, х eis (G1519) hagiasmon (G38)] - rather, 'unto (the attainment of) sanctification;' as the word in this form is rendered in 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Peter 1:2. The sense is this: 'Looking back upon the heartiness with which ye served Sin, and the lengths ye went to, be stimulated now to like zeal and like exuberance in the service of a better Master.'