Charles Ellicott Commentary Romans 6:19

"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." — Romans 6:19 (ASV)

I speak after the manner of men.—I am using a merely human figure of speech—a figure taken from common human relations, and not a lofty mystical phrase such as I used just now—because of the dullness of your understanding: that form of expression you might not be able to comprehend; this present figure, however, is clear even to a mind that is busy with earthly and carnal things, and has little capacity for grasping anything beyond.

Your flesh.—This corresponds nearly to what is elsewhere called “the carnal mind,” a mind alive only to material and sensible things.

To iniquity unto iniquity.—You yielded your members to iniquity for the practice of iniquity.

Unto holiness.—Rather, for sanctification; to be made holy.