¹⁹ I am using a human analogy^(A) because of the weakness of your flesh.^[a] For just as you offered the parts of yourselves as slaves to impurity, and to greater and greater lawlessness, so now offer them as slaves to righteousness, which results in sanctification.

¹⁶ Submit as free people, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil,^(A) but as God’s slaves.^(B)

The Time Is Near

⁶ Then he said to me, ‘These words are faithful^[a] and true.^(A) The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets,^[b] has sent his angel to show his servants what must soon take place.’^(B)