Romans 7:6

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.

But {G1161} now {G3570} we are delivered {G2673} from {G575} the law {G3551}, that being dead {G599}{G599} wherein {G1722}{G3739} we were held {G2722}; that {G5620} we {G2248} should serve {G1398} in {G1722} newness {G2538} of spirit {G4151}, and {G2532} not {G3756} in the oldness {G3821} of the letter {G1121}.

But now we have been released from this aspect of the Torah, because we have died to that which had us in its clutches, so that we are serving in the new way provided by the Spirit and not in the old way of outwardly following the letter of the law.

But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that wherein we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

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Cross-References

  • Galatians 3:23 (20 votes)

    But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

  • Galatians 3:25 (20 votes)

    But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

  • 2 Corinthians 3:6 (20 votes)

    ¶ Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

  • Romans 7:4 (15 votes)

    Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

  • Romans 6:4 (11 votes)

    Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

  • Galatians 4:4 (9 votes)

    But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

  • Galatians 4:5 (9 votes)

    To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.