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Their debtors (opheiletai autōn). Objective genitive: the Gentiles are debtors to the Jews. See the word opheiletēs in Rom 1:14; Rom 8:12.
For if (ei gar). Condition of the first class, assumed as true, first aorist active indicative (eKoinéōnēsan, from Koinéōneō, to share) with associative instrumental case (pneumatikois, spiritual things).
To minister unto (leitourgēsai, first aorist active infinitive of leitourgeō with dative case autois, to them), but here certainly with no “sacerdotal” functions (cf. Rom 15:16).
In carnal things (en tois sarkikois). Things which belong to the natural life of the flesh (sarx), not the sinful aspects of the flesh at all.