Romans 6:19

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you presented the parts of your body as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present them as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

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  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as servants of uncleanness and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as servants of righteousness for holiness.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    I will speake grossly because of the infirmitie of youre flesshe. As ye have geve youre membres servauntes to vnclennes and to iniquitie fro iniquitie vnto iniquitie: even so nowe geve youre membres servantes vnto rightewesnes yt ye maye be sanctified.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    I wil speake grosly, because of the weaknes of youre flesh. Like as ye haue geuen ouer youre membres to the seruyce of vnclennesse, from one wickednesse to another: Eue so now also geue ouer youre membres to the seruyce of righteousnesse, that they maye be holy.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    I speake after the maner of man, because of the infirmitie of your flesh: for as yee haue giuen your members seruants to vncleannes and to iniquitie, to commit iniquitie, so now giue your mebers seruants vnto righteousnesse in holinesse.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    I speake after the maner of men, because of the infirmitie of your fleshe. As ye haue geuen your members seruauntes to vncleannesse and iniquitie, vnto iniquitie: euen so nowe geue your members seruauntes to righteousnesse, vnto holynesse.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    In the manner of men I speak, because of the weakness of your flesh, for even as ye did present your members servants to the uncleanness and to the lawlessness -- to the lawlessness, so now present your members servants to the righteousness -- to sanctification,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members `as' servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members `as' servants to righteousness unto sanctification.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members [as] servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members [as] servants to righteousness unto sanctification.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

Referenced Verses

  • Rom 3:5 : 5 But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust for bringing His wrath on us? (I am speaking in human terms.)
  • Rom 6:13 : 13 Do not present the parts of your body as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God.
  • Gal 3:15 : 15 Brothers and sisters, let me take an example from everyday life: Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly ratified, so it is in this case.
  • 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
  • 1 Cor 9:8 : 8 Do I say these things merely from a human perspective? Doesn’t the Law also say the same?
  • Eph 2:2-3 : 2 In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 Among them we all also once lived in the desires of our flesh, carrying out the inclinations of the flesh and of the mind, and we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
  • Col 3:5-7 : 5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these things, the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. 7 You also once walked in these ways, when you were living in them.
  • 2 Tim 2:16-17 : 16 Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. 17 Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
  • Heb 4:15 : 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way as we are—yet without sin.
  • Heb 12:15 : 15 See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
  • 1 Pet 4:2-4 : 2 As a result, you should no longer live the rest of your earthly life for human desires but instead for the will of God. 3 For you have already spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles choose to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry. 4 They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.
  • Rom 6:16-17 : 16 Do you not know that if you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you were slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted.
  • Rom 8:26 : 26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weaknesses. For we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with unspeakable groanings.
  • Rom 15:1 : 1 We who are strong ought to bear with the weaknesses of those who are weak, and not to please ourselves.
  • 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?
  • 1 Cor 15:32-33 : 32 If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus merely from a human point of view, what benefit is that to me? If the dead are not raised, 'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.' 33 Do not be deceived: 'Bad company corrupts good morals.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 6:11-14
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    11So you too consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

    12Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

    13Do not present the parts of your body as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and the parts of your body as instruments of righteousness to God.

    14For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace.

  • Rom 6:20-23
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    20For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

    21But what fruit did you produce then from the things you are now ashamed of? The outcome of those things is death.

    22But now, having been freed from sin and bound to God, you have your fruit, which leads to sanctification—and the outcome is eternal life.

    23For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Rom 6:16-18
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    16Do you not know that if you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?

    17But thanks be to God that, though you were slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted.

    18Having been set free from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.

  • Rom 6:6-7
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    6We know this: our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, and we would no longer be enslaved to sin.

    7For the one who has died has been freed from sin.

  • 24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.

  • Rom 7:5-6
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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

    6But now we have been released from the law, having died to what once bound us, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

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    18Flee from sexual immorality. Every sin a person commits is outside the body, but the one who sins sexually sins against their own body.

    19Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

    20You were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body and spirit, which are God's.

  • 11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

  • 15Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

  • 1I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercies, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

  • 5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

  • 1 Pet 4:1-2
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    1Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body on our behalf, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body has ceased from sin.

    2As a result, you should no longer live the rest of your earthly life for human desires but instead for the will of God.

  • Rom 8:12-13
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    12So then, brothers and sisters, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to it.

    13For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

  • 5Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with sincerity of heart, as you would Christ.

  • 19They promise freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave to whatever has mastered them.

  • 14But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

  • 19They have become callous and have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

  • 1Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, completing holiness in the fear of God.

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    14As obedient children, do not conform to the desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

    15But just as the One who called you is holy, so also be holy in all your conduct.

    16For it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."

  • 21If anyone cleanses themselves from the latter, they will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

  • 19Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,

  • 22You were taught to put off your former way of life, the old self, which is corrupted by deceitful desires,

  • 8The one who sows to their flesh will reap decay from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

  • 16Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.

  • 13For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

  • 14For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

  • 23but I see another law at work in my members, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.

  • 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.

  • 16I say then, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

  • 22He has now reconciled in His physical body through death to present you holy, blameless, and above reproach before Him—

  • 7Serve with enthusiasm, as to the Lord and not to people,

  • 13Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will destroy both one and the other. The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

  • 5For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

  • 23You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.