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

⁸ Am I saying this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the law also say the same thing?

³² If I fought wild animals in Ephesus^(A) with only human hope,^[a] what good did that do me?^[b](B) If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.^(C)[c]

¹⁵ Brothers, I’m using a human illustration.^[a] No one sets aside or makes additions to even a human covenant^[b] that has been ratified.