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.

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

³² If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus^(A) as a mere man, what good did that do me?^(B) If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.^[a](C)

¹⁵ Brothers and sisters, I’m using a human illustration. No one sets aside or makes additions to a validated human will.^[a]